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Douglas Hyde

1860–1949

Douglas Hyde was born in Castlerea, County Roscommon, and was a scholar of Irish. He founded the Gaelic League in 1893 and later served as the first President of Ireland (1938–45).

His English versions of Irish folk songs, such as those in Love Songs of Connacht (1893), were widely admired.

Poems (11)

  1. Were You on the Mountain? (From the Irish)
  2. My Grief on the Sea (From the Irish)
  3. My Love, O, She Is My Love (From the Irish)
  4. I Shall Not Die for Thee (From the Irish)
  5. Riddles (From the Irish)
  6. An Craoibhin Complains Because He Is a Poet
  7. An Craoibhin Cries Out Against Love
  8. An Craoibhin Meditates on the Life of a Rich Man
  9. The Cooleen
  10. The Breedyeen
  11. Nelly of the Top-Knots

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