Douglas Hyde Quotes
- It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
- By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us as a seperate…
- Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
- I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried
- The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful - a…
- As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no…
- I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen…
- Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.