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Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí, “Letters of Kuno Meyer to Douglas Hyde, 1896–1919”, Studia Hibernica 42 (2016): 1–64.

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Article
“Letters of Kuno Meyer to Douglas Hyde, 1896–1919”
Periodical
Studia Hibernica 42 (2016)
Kelly, James, and Uáitéar Mac Gearailt (eds), Studia Hibernica 42 (2016), Liverpool University Press.
Volume
42
Pages
1–64
Description
Abstract (cited)

No single individual did more to ‘make Irish respectable’ in the decades before and after 1900 than the great German scholar Kuno Meyer. But while Meyer’s tireless activities as an editor and translator of Irish texts and as a populariser of ancient Irish literature has long been documented, less is known about his activities ‘behind the scenes’. A newly discovered cache of letters and postcards that Meyer sent to Douglas Hyde during the years 1898–1919 now reveals the full extent of that background activity and the extraordinary level of encouragement and support that he gave to the movement to establish a ‘native school’ of Irish scholars, culminating in the establishment (in 1903) of the School of Irish Learning in Dublin.

Subjects and topics
Headings
19th century 20th century
History, society and culture
Agents
Douglas HydeHyde (Douglas)
(d. 1949)
de hÍde (Dubhghlas)
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Kuno MeyerMeyer (Kuno)
(20 December 1858–11 October 1919)
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Keywords
letters