Cuimhní cinn a breacadh 1918-19 : an cheathrú cuid

Douglas Hyde's memoir is in four parts, composed at various periods in 1918-19, mostly when he was ill and confined to bed. It looks back on various aspects of his career in the Irish language movement. Part 4 is 19 pages long and recalls Hyde's first encounter with Thomas O'Neill Russell in 1877, O'Neill Russell's bitter attack on Michael Logan, editor of the American newspaper 'An Gaodhal', on points of grammar, his argumentative personality and his general lack of a sense of proportion.

title: Memoir composed in 1918-19 : part 4

Type of resource: dctypes:Text

published: Dublin, Ireland

issued: 2022-02-04

Transcriber details: Transcribed by Fiona Lyons. Please note that the transcriptions are not definitive and are subject to change.

Scope and content: The manuscript of the memoir is in four parts. It was composed by Douglas Hyde in 1918 and 1919, mainly while he was ill and confined to bed. The memoir forms the greater part of file 4 in box 2 of three boxes of material relating to Douglas Hyde held in the National Folklore Collection. Other items in the Collection include manuscripts of folklore collected by Hyde himself, handwritten and typescript copies of articles and portions of books written by him, letters sent to him, offprints, proofs, newspaper cuttings and pamphlets. As regards date, the material covers the period from 1878 to 1949.

Scope and content: The three boxes of material are believed to have been retrieved for safe-keeping at the request of local officials of Conradh na Gaeilge (The Gaelic League), by Seán Ó Súilleabháin, Archivist, Coimisiún Béaloideasa Éireann, from Ratra House, Hyde's residence near Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon in 1954. Ratra House was then in the care of Conradh na Gaeilge, but rapidly falling into disrepair at the time. The memoir is hand-written in pencil and is in four parts. It extends to 93 pages.

Scope and content: Part 4: 19 pages Note at top of first page: "Sgríobhtha agus mé tinn im leabaidh, Samhain 1919. Baile Atha Cliath" (Written when I was sick in bed, November 1919. Dublin). Hyde's involvement with language movement prior to Gaelic League, early years of Gaelic League and relationship with Thomas O'Neill Russell are recalled in a lively personal reminiscence. O'Neill Russell was the first person he came to know on attending a meeting of the Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language in Dublin. He next met Russell in New York in 1891, as he returned home from his year in Canada. Russell was renowned for being opinionated and contrary, and for seeing everything in vivid colours. As a result of his great efforts, he eventually came to speak and write Irish with great fluency but also with great inaccuracy. He had no sense of perspective and was prone to engaging in fierce arguments about grammatical points. Hyde and Russell eventually fell out when Russell was displeased at Hyde using entries from his diary to refute Russell's claim to have founded the Gaelic League, which formed the basis of a row he was having with MacNeill.

Scóip & ábhar: Tá cuimhní cinn de hÍde roinnte i gceithre chuid, a cumadh ag tréimhsí éagsúla, 1918-19, ach go háirithe fad is a bhí sé tinn nuair ab éigean dó fanacht sa leaba. Is ionann na cuimhní cinn agus tromlach an ábhair i gcomhad 4, bosca 2, ceann de thrí bhosca ábhair de chuid de hÍde atá i dtaisce ag Cnuasach Bhéaloideas Éireann. Ar an ábhar eile atá ann tá scéalta béaloidis a bhailigh sé féin, altanna agus caibidlí leabhair leis (idir lámhscríofa agus chlóscríofa), comhfhreagras ó dhaoine éagsúla, seach-chlónna, profaí, gearrtháin nuachtáin agus paimfléid. Baineann an t-ábhar uile leis an tréimhse 1878-1949.

Scóip & ábhar: Is cosúil gur shábháil Seán Ó Súilleabháin, Cartlannaí Choimisiún Bhéaloideas Éireann, an t-ábhar seo ó Theach Ráth an tSratha, teach cónaithe de hÍde i nDún Gar ar iarratas ó bhaill áitiúla Chonradh na Gaeilge sa bhliain 1954. Bhí Teach Ráth an tSratha faoi chúram an Chonartha ag an am, ach bhí drochbhail ag teacht air. Tá na cuimhní cinn scríofa i bpeann luaidhe, i gceithre chuid. Nócha a trí (93) leathanach atá ann san iomlá

Scóip & ábhar: Part 4: 19 leathanach Nóta ag barr an chéad leathanaigh: Sgríobhtha agus mé tinn im leabaidh, Samhain 1919. Baile Atha Cliath. Cuntas beoga ar an mbaint a bhí ag de hÍde le gluaiseacht na teanga sular bunaíodh an Conradh, blianta luatha an Chonartha féin, agus an caidreamh a bhí aige le Tomás Ó Néill Ruiséal. Ba é Ó Néill Ruiséal an chéad duine ar chuir sé aithne air ag cruinniú den Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language i mBaile Átha Cliath. Bhuail sé le hÓ Néill Ruiséal arís i Nua Eabhrac i 1891 agus é ar a bhealach abhaile tar éis bliain a chaitheamh i gCeanada. Bhí cáil ar Ó Néill Ruiséal as bheith achrannach ceanndána, agus dearcadh dubh agus bán a bheith aige faoi gach rud. De bharr a chuid tréaniarrachtaí d'éirigh leis Gaeilge a labhairt agus a scríobh go breá líofa, ach ar shlí a bhí thar a bheith míchruinn. Níor dhuine stuama é agus luífeadh sé isteach ar argóintí fíochmhara faoi phointí gramadaí. Thit de hÍde agus Ó Néill Ruiséal amach le chéile ar deireadh thiar nuair a d'úsáid de hÍde iontrálacha óna dhialann le cruthú nárbh é Ó Néill Ruiséal a bhunaigh Conradh na Gaeilge, pointe a bhí ina ábhar achrainn idir é féin agus Mac Néill.

genre: memoir

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