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The National University of Ireland is a federal university comprising 4 constituent universities and a number of other educational institutions. RCN: 20000035
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Emails really lack the personality of a handwritten letter! Below is one of our all-time favourite signatures in the NUI Archives (it's between this and Tolkien): that of GK Chesterton when he writes to NUI upon being offered an honorary degree in 1929. #FamousSignatures

A letter, dated November 1929, from GK Chesterton to NUI, written in his very distinctive hand. It reads: Dear Sir, I do hope I may be forgiven if this letter comes late; and that it will be attributed to anything except insensibility to the great honour done to me. As a fact, it was due to complications of travel with which I will not trouble you; which delayed first the receipt of your letter and then my chance of reply. I can only say that if the University of Ireland paid me so splendid a compliment I should feel every possible kind of pleasure except a cause of deserving it; about that I can only please that I have believed all my life in the greatness of Ireland, not in any party or patronising spirit but from love of what is heroic in history. The only doubt concerns whether I can get free of my fixed engagements here in time for the date mentioned. I will do my very best; if it is quite impossible, I hope you will understand. Yours very faithfully, GK Chesterton."
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National University of Ireland
@nuimerrionsq.bsky.social
The National University of Ireland is a federal university comprising 4 constituent universities and a number of other educational institutions. RCN: 20000035
105 followers83 following127 posts
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