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What we want in Ireland is a National University which will bring students together and educate them upon national lines. - Douglas Hyde Quotes

What we want in Ireland is a National University which will bring students together and educate them upon national lines.

Englishmen have very noble and excellent qualities which I should like to see imitated here, but I should not like to imitate them in everything. I like our own habits and character better, they are more consonant to my nature; I like our own turn of thought, our own characteristics, and above all I like our own language. - Douglas Hyde Quotes

Englishmen have very noble and excellent qualities which I should like to see imitated here, but I should not like to imitate them in everything. I like our own habits and character better, they are more consonant to my nature; I like our own turn of thought, our own characteristics, and above all I like our own language.

Now if we allow our living language to die out, it is almost a certainty that we condemn our literary records to remain in obscurity. - Douglas Hyde Quotes

Now if we allow our living language to die out, it is almost a certainty that we condemn our literary records to remain in obscurity.

Irish Politician

How many Irishmen are there who would purchase material prosperity at such a price? It is exactly such a question as this and the answer to it that shows the difference between the English and Irish race. Nine Englishmen out of ten would jump to make the exchange, and I firmly believe that nine Irishmen out of ten would indignantly refuse it. - Douglas Hyde Quotes

How many Irishmen are there who would purchase material prosperity at such a price? It is exactly such a question as this and the answer to it that shows the difference between the English and Irish race. Nine Englishmen out of ten would jump to make the exchange, and I firmly believe that nine Irishmen out of ten would indignantly refuse it.

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it. - Douglas Hyde Quotes

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.

Irish Politician

For the first time in Ireland within my recollection, Catholic and Protestant, Unionist and Nationalist, landlord and tenant, priest and parson, all work hand in hand in the interest of Ireland's life and intellectuality. - Douglas Hyde Quotes

For the first time in Ireland within my recollection, Catholic and Protestant, Unionist and Nationalist, landlord and tenant, priest and parson, all work hand in hand in the interest of Ireland's life and intellectuality.

The literary activity of even the eighteenth century among the Gaels was very great. - Douglas Hyde Quotes

The literary activity of even the eighteenth century among the Gaels was very great.

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. - Douglas Hyde Quotes

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.

Irish Politician

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried. - Douglas Hyde Quotes

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.

Irish Politician

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. - Douglas Hyde Quotes

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

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