The Necessity For De Anglicising Ireland | A Speech by Douglas Hyde Ireland's FIRST President

https://bit.ly/brehonacademy_courses Douglas Hyde delivered this speech before the Irish Literary Society in Dublin, 1892. Hyde would later go on to become the First President of the Irish Free State. Throughout his life and career, Hyde was driven to revive Irish ways, customs, and to recognise and honour Ireland's distinct social, historical, linguistic, and cultural characteristics.

Douglas Hyde delivered his celebrated lecture, ‘The Necessity of De-Anglicising the Irish Nation’, to the National Literary Society in Dublin in November 1892. In this he forcefully articulated his intellectual case on behalf of Irish. This lecture is widely acknowledged as a pivotal moment in the history of the language, one which helped to inspire the founding of the Gaelic League the following year. Drawing on Hyde’s private diaries and public writings, this paper will analyse the processes whereby he came to acquire the Irish language and embrace its values through interaction with its speakers, and how his personal experiences led him to champion the country’s national culture. (RIA)

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