Editing Douglas Hyde (section)

==Senator==
[[File:Douglas Hyde 2.jpg|thumb|200px|Hyde, circa 1917]]
Hyde had no association with [[Sinn Féin]] and the independence movement. He was elected to [[Seanad Éireann (Irish Free State)|Seanad Éireann]], the upper house of the [[Irish Free State]]'s [[Oireachtas of the Irish Free State|Oireachtas]] (parliament), at a by-election on 4 February 1925, replacing Sir [[Hutcheson Poë]].<ref name=oireachtas_db>{{cite web |url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Douglas-Hyde.S.1925-02-04/ |title=Douglas Hyde |work=Oireachtas Members Database |access-date=10 January 2013 |archive-date=7 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107225105/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Douglas-Hyde.S.1925-02-04 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the [[1925 Seanad election]], Hyde placed 28th of the 78 candidates, with 19 seats available. The [[Catholic Truth Society]] opposed him for his [[Protestantism]] and publicised his supposed support for divorce. Historians have suggested that the CTS campaign was ineffective,<ref name="sullivan1940">{{cite book |last=O'Sullivan |first=Donal |title=The Irish Free State and its Senate: A Study in Contemporary Politics |publisher=[[Faber & Faber]] |location=London |year=1940}}</ref> and that Irish-language advocates performed poorly, with all those endorsed by the Gaelic League losing.<ref name="sullivan1940"/><ref>{{cite journal |title=Ireland's Unique Electoral Experiment: The Senate Election of 1925 |doi=10.1080/07907180500359327 |first=John |last=Coakley |journal=Irish Political Studies |date=September 2005 |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=231–269|s2cid=145175747 }}</ref>

He returned to academia as Professor of Irish at [[University College Dublin]], where one of his students was future [[Attorney General of Ireland]], [[Chief Justice of Ireland]] and [[President of Ireland]], [[Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh]].