As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.

Rejecting family pressure that like past generations of Hydes he would follow a career in the Church Hyde instead became an academic. However in April 1940 he suffered a massive stroke. 3.

Douglas Hyde (Irish: Dubhghlas de hÍde; 17 January 1860 – 12 July 1949) known as An Craoibhín Aoibhinn was an Irish scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945.