“The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland”

Douglas Hyde, in The Revival of Irish Literature and Other Addresses by Sir Charles Duffy, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde.

“The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland”

London (Dublin printed)

T. Fisher Unwin

1894

“In Anglicising ourselves wholesale,” Hyde writes in this essay, delivered to the Irish National Literary Society in 1892, “we have thrown away the best claim we have upon the world’s recognition of us as a separate nationality.”