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Friday, April 02, 2004

Hyde, Douglas

Irish �Dubhighlas de Hide�; pseudonym �An Craoibh�n Aoibhinn� distinguished Gaelic scholar and writer and first president of the Republic of Ireland (�ire). He was the outstanding figure in the struggle for the preservation and extension of the Irish language from 1893, when he founded the Gaelic League (a nationalistic organization of Roman Catholics and Protestants), until

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