Douglas Hyde
1860 – 1949 · aged 89
First President of Ireland; historian, poet, and folklorist (1860-1949)
- Born
- 17 Jan 1860 · Castlerea
- Died
- 12 Jul 1949 · Dublin
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 17 Jan 1860BornBorn in Castlerea
- 1893RoleFounder
- 1893 – 1915RolePresident
- 1894 – 1895RolePresident
- 1906AwardDoctor of Letters
- 1906AwardHonorary citizen of Dublin
- 1906AwardHonorary citizenship
- 1909AwardHonorary citizenship
- 1925RoleSenator of Ireland
- 1938RoleSenator of Ireland
- 1938 – 1945RolePresident of Ireland
- 12 Jul 1949DiedDied in Dublin
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1860 – 1949).
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
Biography
Douglas Ross Hyde (Irish: Dubhghlas de hÍde; 17 January 1860 – 12 July 1949), known as An Craoibhín Aoibhinn (lit. transl. the pleasant little branch), was an Irish academic, linguist, scholar of the Irish language, politician, and diplomat who served as the first president of Ireland from June 1938 to June 1945. He was a leading figure in the Gaelic revival, and the first president of the Gaelic League, one of the most influential cultural organisations in Ireland at the time.
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