Editing Douglas Hyde (section)

==Background==
Hyde was born at Longford House in [[Castlerea]], [[County Roscommon]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Longford House, Longford, Castlerea, Roscommon |url=https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/31926002/longford-house-longford-castlerea-roscommon |website=buildingsofireland.ie|publisher=National Inventory of Architectural Heritage|language=en-IE|access-date=11 March 2023}}</ref> while his mother, Elizabeth Hyde (née Oldfield; 1834–1886), was on a short visit. His father, Arthur Hyde, whose family was originally from [[Castlehyde]] near [[Fermoy]], [[County Cork]], was [[Church of Ireland]] [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] of Kilmactranny, [[County Sligo]], from 1852 to 1867, and it was here that Hyde spent his early years.<ref name=dib>{{cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/hyde-douglas-de-hide-dubhghlas-a4185|title=Hyde, Douglas (de hÍde, Dubhghlas)|work=[[Dictionary of Irish Biography]]|last=Maume|first=Patrick |access-date=26 December 2023}}</ref> Arthur Hyde and Elizabeth Oldfield married in [[County Roscommon]], in 1852, and had three other children: Arthur Hyde (1853–79 in [[County Leitrim]]), John Oldfield Hyde (1854–96 in [[County Dublin]]), and Hugh Hyde (1856).<ref>{{cite book |last=McTernan |first=John C. |title=Worthies of Sligo, Profiles of Eminent Sligonians of Other Days |year=1994 |publisher=Avena Publications |location=Sligo |isbn=0-85342-503-5}}</ref>

[[File:DouglasHydepresident.jpg|thumb|left|Hyde as a young man]]
In 1867, his father was appointed [[prebendary]] and rector of Tibohine, and the family moved to neighbouring [[Frenchpark]], in County Roscommon. He was home-schooled by his father and his aunt due to a childhood illness.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Douglas_Hyde3344120424 |title=Multitext Project in Irish History – Douglas Hyde |access-date=31 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001215611/http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Douglas_Hyde3344120424 |archive-date=1 October 2011 }}</ref> While a young man, he became fascinated with hearing the old people in the locality speak the [[Irish language]]. He was influenced in particular by the gamekeeper Séamus Hart and his friend's wife, Mrs. Connolly. Aged 14, Hyde was devastated when Hart died, and his interest in the Irish language—the first language he began to study in any detail, as his own undertaking—flagged for a while. However, he visited [[Dublin]] several times and realised that there were groups of people, just like him, interested in Irish, a language looked down on at the time by many and seen as backward and old-fashioned.

Rejecting family pressure that, like past generations of Hydes, he would follow a career as an [[Anglican clergyman]], Hyde instead became an academic. He entered [[Trinity College Dublin]], where he became fluent in French, [[Latin]], German, [[Greek language|Greek]], and [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], graduating in 1884 as a moderator in modern literature. A medallist of the [[College Historical Society]], he was elected its president in 1931.<ref name="Dunleavy">{{cite book |last=Dunleavy |first=Janet & Gareth |title=Douglas Hyde – A Maker of Modern Ireland |year=1991 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |location=Berkeley, California |isbn=0-520-06684-7}}</ref> His passion for the [[language revival]] of Irish, which was already in severe decline, led him to help found the [[Conradh na Gaeilge|Gaelic League]], or in Irish, {{lang|ga|Conradh na Gaeilge}}, in 1893.

Hyde married German-born but British-raised [[Lucy Kurtz]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poemhunter.com/douglas-hyde/biography/|title=Douglas Hyde - Douglas Hyde Biography|website=Poem Hunter|access-date=1 March 2017|archive-date=1 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301195223/https://www.poemhunter.com/douglas-hyde/biography/|url-status=live}}</ref> in 1893. The couple had two daughters, Nuala and Úna.<ref>The Trustees of FreeBMD (2005). [http://freebmd.rootsweb.com FreeBMD] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903015822/https://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ |date=3 September 2021 }}. Retrieved 12 November 2005.</ref>