File 10 - Letters from Douglas Hyde

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IE CA CP/3/3/1/10

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Letters from Douglas Hyde

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  • 1910-1914 (Creation)

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14 items; Manuscript

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(18 September 1863-17 March 1916)

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A file of letters from Douglas Hyde to Fr. Richard Henebry. Many of the letters are signed ‘An Craoibhín’. A letter (17 Mar. 1910) refers to the need for external examiners in Irish for a university board of education. Other letters refer to various texts in Irish for a matriculation examination for University College Dublin and matters pertaining to travelling studentships. An undated letter from Hyde (written at Ratra, Frenchpark County Roscommon) reads ‘As to your scholarships and the valuable work you have done in Celtic phonology and language there can be only one opinion. Your long course of study in Germany under the most distinguished dialectologists of Europe has given you advantages such as none of our native Irish scholars at home possess …’.

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  • English
  • Irish

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For biographical information on Douglas Hyde (1860-1949) see https://www.dib.ie/biography/hyde-douglas-de-hide-dubhghlas-a4185

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