Ratra House
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Ratra House, sometimes called Little Ratra, is one of the minor state residences located in the Phoenix Park in Dublin, Ireland.
Ratra House in Dublin's Phoenix Park
Douglas Hyde
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Douglas Ross Hyde, known as An Craoibhín Aoibhinn, was an Irish academic, linguist, scholar of the Irish language, politician, and diplomat who served as the first president of Ireland from June 1938
Ratra House
…of Adjutant General of the Irish Army, Major General Brennan between 1926 and 1940. In 1945, the wheelchair-using retiring first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, was judged too ill to return to his Roscommon country house, Ratra. It was decided instead to move him into the vacant residence in the grounds of the…
Hyde, c. 1940
Hyde as a young man
Hyde, circa 1917
Douglas Hyde (in back of car holding top hat), leaving Dublin Castle with a cavalry escort following his inauguration.