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 slideshow of photos from our Independent Newspapers Collection all taken in Dublin on the day of Douglas Hyde's inauguration.

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