Douglas
Hyde b. 1860–d. 1949
2013
Lia Fáil was originally published by the National University of Ireland as a journal of Irish research. Four volumes, edited by Douglas Hyde, were published between 1925 and 1932. Scholarly, interesting and innovative, Lia Fáil featured a wide range of material and included articles by Hyde’s postgraduate students. This elegant facsimile edition reproduces all four books in a single volume. Edited by Liam Mac Mathúna, the book includes a new introduction by Seán Ó Coileáin.
Douglas Hyde was appointed first Professor of Modern Irish in UCD in 1909. In 1922 the Senate of the National University of Ireland accepted a recommendation from the Professors of Irish that the generous bequest from Dr. Adam Boyd Simpson should be used to fund ‘a journal of Irish research’. Hyde (Dubhglas de h’Íde, An Craoibhín) was appointed editor. The result was Lia Fáil, four volumes of which were published between 1925 and 1932, the year of Hyde’s retirement from UCD.
Seen always as a force for unity, with the capacity for bridging social, political and cultural divisions, Douglas Hyde was nominated with all-party support as a candidate for the presidency of Ireland and in May 1938 was elected unopposed as the country’s first President. Maurice Manning contributes a reflection on Hyde and the presidency to this volume.
Lia Fáil was originally published by the National University of Ireland as a journal of Irish research. Four volumes, edited by Douglas Hyde, were published between 1925 and 1932. Scholarly, interesting and innovative, Lia Fáil featured a wide range of material and included articles by Hyde’s postgraduate students. This elegant facsimile edition reproduces all four books in a single volume. Edited by Liam Mac Mathúna, the book includes a new introduction by Seán Ó Coileáin.
Douglas Hyde was appointed first Professor of Modern Irish in UCD in 1909. In 1922 the Senate of the National University of Ireland accepted a recommendation from the Professors of Irish that the generous bequest from Dr. Adam Boyd Simpson should be used to fund ‘a journal of Irish research’. Hyde (Dubhglas de h’Íde, An Craoibhín) was appointed editor. The result was Lia Fáil, four volumes of which were published between 1925 and 1932, the year of Hyde’s retirement from UCD.
Seen always as a force for unity, with the capacity for bridging social, political and cultural divisions, Douglas Hyde was nominated with all-party support as a candidate for the presidency of Ireland and in May 1938 was elected unopposed as the country’s first President. Maurice Manning contributes a reflection on Hyde and the presidency to this volume.
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About the author
| Sharpe, Richard, “Destruction of Irish manuscripts and the National Board of Education”, Studia Hibernica 43 (2017): 95–116.. |
| Tuomi, Ilona, “‘As I went up the hill of Mount Olive’ : the Irish tradition of the Three Good Brothers charm revisited”, Studia Celtica Fennica 13 (2016): 69–94.. |
| Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí, “Letters of Kuno Meyer to Douglas Hyde, 1896–1919”, Studia Hibernica 42 (2016): 1–64.. |
| Hyde, Douglas, and Liam Mac Mathúna (eds), Lia Fáil: Irisleabhar Gaedhilge Ollsgoile na hÉireann [Facsimile reproduction of volumes 1–4], Dublin: National University of Ireland, 2013.. |
| Wolf, Nicholas, “Irish scribal culture as a purveyor of charm texts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries”, Incantatio: An International Journal on Charms, Charmers and Charming 3 (2013): 33–42.. URL: <https://ojs.folklore.ee/incantatio/issue/view/issue3>. |
| Ó Lúing, Seán, Celtic studies in Europe and other essays, Dublin: Geography Publications, 2000.. |
| Dunleavy, Janet Egleson, and Gareth W. Dunleavy, Douglas Hyde: A maker of modern Ireland, Berkeley, Los Angeles and Oxford: University of California Press, 1991.. URL: <http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2w1004tq>. |
