File:Douglas Hyde inauguration.jpg
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This is Douglas Hyde (in back of car holding top hat), leaving Dublin Castle with a cavalry escort following his inauguration as Ireland's first president. The car has just turned out onto Cork Hill/Dame Street at this point. The president stopped for 2 minutes outside the G.P.O. on O'Connell Street before continuing to his new home at Áras an Uachtaráin (formerly the Vice-Regal Lodge, home of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) in the Phoenix Park.
Date: Saturday, 25 June 1938
View a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thejournal.ie/gallery-inauguration-of-irelands-first-poet-president-in-1938-276206-Nov2011/?utm_source=shortlink">slideshow of photos</a> from our Independent Newspapers Collection all taken in Dublin on the day of Douglas Hyde's inauguration.
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| current | 07:19, 12 January 2017 | | 1,278 × 945 (796 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <p>This is Douglas Hyde (in back of car holding top hat), leaving Dublin Castle with a cavalry escort following his inauguration as Ireland's first president. The car has just turned out onto Cork Hill/Dame Street at this point. The president stopped for 2 minutes outside the G.P.O. on O'Connell Street before continuing to his new home at Áras an Uachtaráin (formerly the Vice-Regal Lodge, home of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) in the Phoenix Park. </p> <p>Date: Saturday, 25 June 1938 </p> <p>View a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thejournal.ie/gallery-inauguration-of-irelands-first-poet-president-in-1938-276206-Nov2011/?utm_source=shortlink">slideshow of photos</a> from our Independent Newspapers Collection all taken in Dublin on the day of Douglas Hyde's inauguration. </p> <p>NLI Ref.: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/IND_H_3312">IND_H_3312</a> </p> |
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