Editing Douglas Hyde (section)

==Retirement and death==

Hyde left office on 25 June 1945, opting not to nominate himself for a second term. Owing to his ill-health he did not return to his Roscommon home, ''Ratra'', empty since the death of his wife early in his term. He moved into the former residence of the Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, on the grounds of Áras an Uachtaráin, which he renamed ''[[Little Ratra]]'', where he lived out the remaining four years of his life. He died at 10{{nbsp}}pm on 12 July 1949, aged 89.<ref>Announcement of death, ''The Irish Times'', 13 July 1949</ref>