Editing Douglas Hyde (section)

==Conradh na Gaeilge/Gaelic League==

{{main|Conradh na Gaeilge}}

Hyde joined the [[Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language]] around 1880, and between 1879 and 1884, he published more than a hundred pieces of Irish verse under the [[pen name]] {{lang|ga|An Craoibhín Aoibhinn}} ({{Translation|the pleasant little branch|literal=yes}}).<ref name="OCor">{{cite web |url=http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Douglas_Hyde3344120424 |title=Douglas Hyde |last=Ó Corráin |first=Donnchadh |publisher=University College Cork, Multitext Project in Irish History |access-date=10 April 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>
[[File:Portrait of Dr Douglas Hyde .PNG|thumb|Portrait of Hyde]]
Initially derided, the Irish language movement gained a mass following. Hyde helped establish the ''[[Gaelic Journal]]'' in 1892; in November, he wrote a manifesto called ''The necessity for de-anglicising the Irish nation'',<ref name="OCor"/> arguing that Ireland should follow its own traditions in language, literature, and dress.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hyde |first1=Douglas |title=The necessity for de-anglicizing the Irish nation |url=http://www.gaeilge.org/deanglicising.html |website=gaeilge.org |access-date=11 January 2017 |archive-date=6 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806042847/http://www.gaeilge.org/deanglicising.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1893, he helped found Conradh na Gaeilge (the Gaelic League) to encourage the preservation of Irish culture, music, dance and language. A new generation of Irish republicans (including [[Patrick Pearse|Pádraig Pearse]], [[Éamon de Valera]], [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]] and [[Ernest Blythe]]), became politicised through their involvement in Conradh na Gaeilge. Hyde filled out the 1911 census form in Irish.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000186386/ |title=Census of Ireland 1911 - de hÍde |publisher=National Archives of Ireland |access-date=8 December 2007 |archive-date=12 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090512142420/http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000186386/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Uncomfortable with the growing politicisation of the movement, Hyde resigned the presidency in 1915. He was succeeded by the League's co-founder [[Eoin MacNeill]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Ryan |first=John |date=December 1945 |title=Eoin Mac Neill 1867–1945 |journal=Irish Province of the Society of Jesus |volume=34 |issue=136 |pages=433–448|jstor=30100064}}, pp. 439–40</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Grote |first=Georg |title=Torn Between Politics and Culture: the Gaelic League, 1893–1993 |location=Münster |publisher=Waxman |year=1994 |page=120 |isbn=3-89325-243-6}}</ref>