The Scandalous History of Oscar Wilde’s Memorial Tomb
Jacob Epstein was very upset. For months, the sculptor had toiled on a memorial tomb for Oscar Wilde, the celebrated—and ...
Mental Floss on MSN16d
The Scandalous History of Oscar Wilde’s Memorial Tomb
For months, the sculptor had toiled on a memorial tomb for Oscar Wilde ... a letter Wilde wrote while in prison.) Epstein ...
Londonist13d
Mapping The London Of Sherlock Holmes
No fictional character is so intimately associated with London. The very name of Sherlock ... It was here that editor JM Stoddart commissioned Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and ...
The New York Times19d
Premier League fans are revolting – but for very different reasons
Next to the “United Trinity” statue of George Best ... It calls to mind Oscar Wilde’s famous line about the definition of a cynic as “a man who knows the price of everything and the ...
The Irish Times19d
Twist by Colum McCann: Surprising and electric, a wired-up story of what it means to bend yourself into new shapes
The pace of his prose carries the reader along, as does the sweep of his settings as Twist follows a course from Dublin to Cape Town to the west coast of Africa and back to London, with a flourish ...
RTE Online27d
John C Reilly joins Irish screen legends with his Oscar Wilde Award
John C Reilly laughed when asked if there would also be a statue of him in Dublin to join the one of Oscar Wilde Reilly, who visits Ireland "at least once or twice a year", laughed when asked if ...
Smithsonian Magazine23d
Why Oscar Wilde’s Play About a Biblical Temptress Was Banned From the British Stage for Decades
"Salome," a one-act tragedy by the Irish playwright, terrified the Victorian public with its provocative depiction of a ...