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Douglas Hyde
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“When we speak of 'The Necessity for De-Anglicising the Irish Nation', we mean it, not as a protest against imitating what is best in the English people, for that would be absurd, but rather to show the folly of neglecting what is Irish, and hastening to adopt, pell-mell, and indiscriminately, everything that is English, simply because it is English.”
Douglas Hyde (1860–1949) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland', by Douglas Hyde. Delivered before the Irish National Literary Society in Dublin, 25 November 1892.
“If we allow one of the finest and the richest languages in Europe, which, fifty years ago, was spoken by nearly four million Irishmen, to die out without a struggle, it will be an everlasting disgrace, and a blighting stigma upon our nationality.”
Douglas Hyde (1860–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful - a very powerful destroyer; but it is useless for building up. Love, on the other hand, is like faith; it can move mountains, and faith, we have mountains to move.”
Douglas Hyde (1860–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Douglas Hyde (1986). “Language, lore, and lyrics: essays and lectures”, Irish Academic Press.
“My aim was to save the Irish language from death - it was dying then as fast as ever it could died - and that ambition did not lend itself to English writing except for propaganda purposes ...”
Douglas Hyde (1860–1949) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Dominic Daly, The Young Douglas Hyde, 1974, p.xvii. The Dublin Magazine, vol. 13, 1938, p.29.
“I do not think there is much to add to what I have said here, except to observe that it is a national duty - I had almost said a moral one - for all those who speak Irish to speak it to their children also, and to take care that the growing generation shall know it as well as themselves: and in general, that it is the duty of all Irish-speakers to use their own language amongst themselves, and on all possible occasions, except where it will not run. For, if we allow one of the finest and richest languages in Europe, which, fifty years ago, was spoken by nearly four million Irishmen, to die out without a struggle, it will be an everlasting disgrace and a blighting stigma upon our nationality.”
Douglas Hyde (1860–1949) first seen 1845 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Leabhar Sgeulaigheachta (1889): ([pp.215-18]; Quoted in Brian Ó Cuív, ‘Irish Literature and Language, 1845-1921’, in William Vaughan, ed., A New History of Ireland, Vol. VI: 1870-1921, OUP 1996, p.401.)