Cuimhní cinn a breacadh 1918-19 : an chéad chuid

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. The first part of the memoir is 9 pages long and in it Hyde writes of the politicisation of the Gaelic League and his subsequent resignation as President.

title: Memoir composed in 1918-19 : part 1

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 1: 9 pages Politicisation of the League. Hyde summarises the pragmatic and intellectual considerations which led him to promote the Gaelic League as a non-political organisation, up to the time of his resignation from the Presidency at the 1915 Dundalk Ard-Fheis and his subsequent acceptance of the inevitability of the change in direction.

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 iomlán.

Scóip & ábhar: Cuid 1: 9 leathanach Polaitiú an Chonartha. Tugann de hÍde léargas ar na tuairimí praiticiúla agus intleachtúla a thug air Conradh na Gaeilge a chur chun cinn mar eagraíocht neamhpholaitiúil, go dtí an uair ar éirigh sé as an Uachtaránacht ag Ard-Fheis Dhún Dealgan i 1915, agus an tslí ar ghlac sé leis ina dhiaidh sin go raibh athrú treo an Chonartha dosheachanta.

genre: memoir

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