Photo: Alice Boughton (Public domain), Wikimedia Commons

If you like Douglas Hyde, read these authors

first President of Ireland; historian, poet, and folklorist (1860-1949)

Also known as: An Craoibhin Aoibhinn, Douglas Ross Hyde, Dubhghlas de hÍde, Дуглас Хайд, دوغلاس هايد, 두아글라스 더 히더

Similar authors

This list comes from an AI, not yet from reader data. Once enough readers like Douglas Hyde, their data replaces the AI suggestions.

Augusta, Lady Gregory1852–1932
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Collected and retold Irish folklore and heroic legend in Hiberno-English idiom, close to his folk-tale translations. (AI reason)
Report
William Butler Yeats1865–1939
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Gathered Irish fairy and folk tales and drew on Gaelic tradition in Celtic Revival poetry. (AI reason)
Report
Jeremiah Curtin1835–1906
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Recorded Irish oral myths and folk tales of the west of Ireland in plain narrative prose. (AI reason)
Report
Patrick Kennedy1801–1873
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Compiled legendary fictions and fireside tales of the Irish Celts. (AI reason)
Report
Joseph Jacobs1854–1916
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Edited popular collections of Celtic fairy tales drawing heavily on Irish oral sources. (AI reason)
Report

Show all 10

Standish James O'Grady1846–1928
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Retold early Irish heroic sagas, foundational to the Gaelic literary revival. (AI reason)
Report
John Millington Synge1871–1909
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Wrote drama and travel prose steeped in the speech and folklore of Gaelic-speaking western Ireland. (AI reason)
Report
Peig Sayers1873–1958
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Irish-language storyteller whose memoir preserves oral tradition of the Blasket Islands. (AI reason)
Report
Padraic Colum1881–1972
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Retold Irish legends and wrote ballad-like poetry rooted in rural Gaelic life. (AI reason)
Report
James Stephens1882–1950
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
Reworked Irish myth and fairy lore with lyrical whimsy in Irish Fairy Tales. (AI reason)
Report

Pick Douglas Hyde and a few more favorite authors to get suggestions that fit you.