3173966Thom's Irish Who's Who — Hyde, Douglas


HYDE, Douglas, B.A. LL.D., D.Litt. (known in Ireland as "An Craoibhin Aoibhinn"); historian, poet, and folklorist; youngest son of late Rev. Arthur Hyde, Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon. Educ: Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. (with first Senior Moderatorship and large Gold Medal), 1884; LL.D., 1887; D.Litt (Hon.) R.U.I., 1906. Interim Prof. Mod. Lang., State University of New Brunswick, 1891; President of Irish National Literary Society, 1894-95; President of Gaelic League since its foundation, 1893, till 1915, when he resigned; President Irish Texts Society; Examiner in Celtic to Royal University of Ireland; Assist. Editor New Irish Library, 1897; received honorary freedom of cities of Dublin, Cork, and Kilkenny, 1906, on returning from U.S.A. with £11000 for the Gaelic League, 1906; Member of Royal Commission on Irish University Education, 1906; Freedom of Limerick, 1909; Member of the Senate, 1909-19: and Professor of Modern Irish in the National University of Ireland, 1909. Pubns.: Leabhar Sgeuluigheachta, 1889; Beside the Fire, 1890; Cois na teineadh, 1891; Love Songs of Connacht, 1894; Three Sorrows of Story-telling, 1895; Story of Early Irish Literature, 1897; An Sgeuluidhe Gaodhalach, cuid I. 1898, cuid II. 1899, cuid III. 1901 (French translation, 1901); A Literary History of Ireland. 1899; Mediæval Tales from the Irish, being Vol. I. of Irish Texts Society, 1899; Ubhla den Chraoibh (a volume of poems in Irish), 1900; Casadh an tsugáin, a play in Irish, produced in the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, Oct., 1901; Tri Sgéalta, edited for Oireachtas Committee, 1902; Filidheacht Ghaedhalach, 1903; Raftery's Poems, 1904; The Bursting of the Bubble, An Posadh, An Cleamhnas, King James, the Tinker and the Fairy, all Irish plays, 1905; The Religious Songs of Connacht, 1906: Sgéaluidhe Fior na Seachtmhaine, 1909; Maistin an Bheurla, a play, 1913; Legends of Saints and Sinners, from the Irish, 1915; The History of Charlemagne, edited and translated from the Book of Lismore and other vellum MSS., being Vol. XIX. of Irish Texts Society, 1919. Res.: 1 Earlsfort Place, Dublin; Ratra, Frenchpark, Co Roscommon.