Famous Quotes / Douglas Hyde
11 Quotations by Douglas Hyde
- 1. Consider the work of the association in reviving our ancient national game of caman, or hurling, and ...
- 2. How many Irishmen are there who would purchase material prosperity at such a price? It is exactly su ...
- 3. I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always l ...
- 4. I acknowledge that it gives me a pang of sorrow to see the language of the bards and brehons, of the ...
- 5. I believe for example that the character of the people has deteriorated in the east of the County Le ...
- 6. I cannot conceive a more acute pain in the power of sentiment to inflict than that which I should fe ...
- 7. It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their l ...
- 8. Now if we allow our living language to die out, it is almost a certainty that we condemn our literar ...
- 9. The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negat ...
- 10. We are told that the keeping alive a language spoken by so small a number of the community is a barr ...
- 11. What we want in Ireland is a National University which will bring students together and educate them ...