Douglas Hyde
Douglas Hyde ( Irish Dubhghlas de hÍde ; born January 17, 1860 in Castlerea , Ireland , † July 12, 1949 in Dublin ) was an Irish poet and from 1938 to 1945 the first President of Ireland .
biography
Douglas Hyde was the son of a Church of Ireland clergyman . After leaving school, he studied law , but did not work as a lawyer afterwards. In 1893 he founded the Gaelic League to revive and maintain the Irish language, of which he was president until 1915. In 1891 he was appointed Professor of Modern Languages at the University of New Brunswick in Canada, but returned to Ireland two years later. From 1909 to 1932 he was Professor of Modern Irish at University College Dublin . He was active as President of the Irish National Literary Society and was the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945.
Hyde was familiar with Irish Gaelic from an early age and devoted his life to in-depth studies of the Irish language and its history. He made an extremely varied contribution to the cultural history of Ireland and was one of the most important collectors of Irish folk goods. His Love Songs of Connacht , published in 1894, are considered to be one of the most influential collections of this kind. Hyde added English translations to the Gaelic texts, which, however, were not, as elsewhere, in the English of the educated writers, but in the language of the common rural population. He also wrote a history of Irish Gaelic literature ( Literary History of Ireland , 1899) and wrote several dramas in Irish, which was a complete novelty at the time. His plays included the 1903 play An Tincéir agus an tSidheóg , which was performed for the first time in 1905 with musical accompaniment by the Dublin-based composer Michele Esposito. Esposito later developed the material for a one-act opera called The Tinker and the Fairy , for which Hyde wrote the libretto and which premiered in Dublin in 1910. He also translated numerous texts from Irish into English.
Works
- Beside the Fire (1890)
- The Story of Early Gaelic Literature (1897)
- The Bursting of the Bubbles and other Irish Plays (1905)
literature
- Janet Egleson Dunleavy, Gareth W. Dunleavy: Douglas Hyde: A Maker of Modern Ireland . University of California Press, Berkeley 1991.
- Hyde, Douglas . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 31 : English literature - Oyama, Iwao . London 1922, p. 420 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Literature by and about Douglas Hyde in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Douglas Hyde in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinz Kosok: History of Anglo-Irish literature . Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-503-03004-2 , pp. 145 f.
- ↑ The Oireachtas . In: The Irish Times . August 15, 1905, p. 7 ( irishtimes.com ). Amateur Opera in Dublin . In: The Irish Times . April 4, 1910, p. 5 ( irishtimes.com ). P. 47–48 in: Axel Klein : Celtic Legends in Irish Opera, 1900–1930 . In: Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium . tape 24/25 , 2004, pp. 40-53 , JSTOR : 40285180 . Pp. 49–50 in: Joseph J. Ryan: Opera in Ireland before 1925 . In: Gareth Cox and Axel Klein (eds.): Irish Music in the Twentieth Century . Four Courts Press, Dublin 2003, ISBN 1-85182-647-5 , pp. 39-55 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hyde, Douglas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish writer and president |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Castlerea , Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 1949 |
| Place of death | Dublin |