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Dubhghlas de hÍde / Douglas Hyde ("An Craoibhín Aoibhinn")

1860–1949·Wrote in Irish & English

The Revival generation · The Irish Literary Revival (c. 1885–1930) · Irish · English

Poet, folklorist, collector, co-founder of the Gaelic League and first President of Ireland. His Love Songs of Connacht (1893), with its literal English prose renderings, altered the sound of Irish poetry in English for Yeats, Synge and Lady Gregory alike.

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