Douglas Hyde

Contents: The Twisting of the Rope; The Marriage; The Lost Saint; The Nativity; King James; The Bursting of the Bubble; The Tinker and the Sheeog; The Matchmaking

On March 14, 1948, Douglas Hyde handed in his resignation as the news editor of the London Daily Worker and wrote "the end" to twenty years of his life as a member of the Communist Party. A week later, in a written statement, Hyde announced that he had renounced Communism and, with his wife and children, was joining the Catholic Church. The long pilgrimage from Communism to Christ carried Douglas Hyde from complete commitment to Marxism, to a questioning uneasiness about Soviet Russia's glaring contradictions of ideology and action, to a final rejection of the Party. In Dedication and Leadership, Hyde advances the theory that although the goals and aims of Communism are antithetical to human dignity and the rights of the individual, there is much to be learned from communist methods, cadres and psychological motivation. Hyde describes the Communist mechanics of instilling dedication, the first prerequisite for leadership. Here is the complete rationale of party technique: how to stimulate the willingness to sacrifice; the advisability of making big demands to insure a big response; the inspirational indoctrination; and the subtle conversion methods. In this small book, so large with implications, Douglas Hyde comments on both Communist and Catholic potential and their lack of maximum effectiveness. He advocates positive Catholic action, not just a negative anti-Communism, and he points out that the guidelines are now down for a decisive choice between total Communism and a total Christianity. Here is a realistic approach to an acute problem uncolored by emotional propaganda, and here is a realistic answer on how to inspire dedication for leadership.

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On peut appliquer aux Contes irlandais ce qu'Ernest Renan soulignait propos des Mabinogion: L'id e de m rite et de d m rite moral est peu pr s absente de toutes ces compositions. Il y a des tres m chants qui insultent les dames, qui tyrannisent leurs voisins, qui ne se plaisent qu'au mal, parce que telle est leur nature; mais on ne para t pas leur en vouloir pour cela. Tous les autres tres sont parfaitement bons et loyaux, mais plus ou moins richement dou s. C'est le r ve d'une race aimable et douce qui con oit le mal comme le fait de la fatalit , et non comme un produit de la conscience humaine. La nature enti re est enchant e, et f conde, comme l'imagination elle-m me, en cr ations ind finiment vari es. L' dition originale de ces contes date de 1909. Les traductions de Georges Dottin ont paru dans Les Annales de Bretagne, en 1892 et 1893 puis de 1895 1901 (tomes X XVII, VIII et IX), avant d' tre r unies en volume chez Plihon, Rennes, en 1901, sous le titre Contes irlandais. Cr ateur de la Connradh na gaedhilge (Ligue ga lique) en 1893, Douglas Hyde deviendra, en 1938, le premier pr sident de la R publique irlandaise. Il est mort en 1949. Ce recueil contient: LE CONTEUR GA LIQUE, An Sgeuluidhe Gaodhalach Trente cinq contes recueillis par Douglas Hyde aupr s de conteurs de la province du Connacht, avec un souci d'effacement du collecteur devant le conteur et une pr cision dans le vocabulaire qui forcent le respect: l' me irlandaise y est saisie dans toutes les nuances de ses songes. LE LIVRE D'HISTOIRES, Leabhar sgeulaigheachta Les huit contes de ce recueil sont extraits de la collection que Douglas Hyde a publi e, en 1889, sous le titre de Leabhar sgeulaigheachta, Le livre d'histoires. Georges Dottin traduit ici ceux de ces contes qui ne figurent pas dans l'ouvrage de Douglas Hyde (traduit en anglais par Alfred Nutt): Beside the fire, a collection of lrish Gaelic folk stories. LA SEMAINE DU CONTEUR V RIDIQUE, Sg uluidhe Fior na Seachtmhaine Do

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Doug Hyde, with his wide lens and clear eye, draws us in through his meticulous observation of both nature and human nature. He shows us what it feels like to climb a mountain, to note bird songs or a returning nesting squirrel, or to feel the poignancy of intimate engagement with those he loves. The love poems seem lit from within. There is puckish humor here too, as when he manages to get a granddaughter to behave at table or to wear clothes while helping to build a wall. There is also loss in the lived experience recounted, as when love is temporarily lost until a bridge can be rebuilt. In the face of life's inevitable losses, Hyde's poems offer solace: "And so we persevere . . . measuring our days." He tells "heart's truth," and our souls are nourished as if we'd spent time with an especially wise and observant friend. One of the many pleasures of Douglas Hyde's Footnotes is the quiet, perceptive, and inviting conversational voice that powers the poems, guiding readers through a sharply detailed landscape of people and places. Rich images, poignant insights, and witty narratives about familiar experiences beguile and coax us to a fascinating interplay of the intellect and the senses, the provocative and the downright entertaining.