This day 83 years ago – 25 June 1938 – Douglas Hyde was inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
Time magazine wrote of the event, “a Protestant President may help to persuade Northern Ireland that in a political union with Éire, no Protestant would have anything to fear.” pic.twitter.com/5mwcLVdWIU
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1938.
Only his whiskers set him apart.