Oscariana: A Wilde Dublin Festival 2024

Now in its second year, Oscariana is a celebration of the birth of one of Ireland’s greatest sons.  Join us in Dublin at Wilde’s childhood home and other locations around the city for this utterly fabulous festival taking place from October 16-20, 2024.

Walk in the footsteps of Oscar Wilde with our free walking tour of the city centre A Walk On the Wilde Side. See some of the extraordinary artefacts at exhibitions on display at Trinity College Dublin’s Long Room and the historic Marsh’s Library. Children can enjoy a magical reading of Oscar’s fairytales by Emily Collins in the very nursery he grew up in. Enjoy the acclaimed guided tour of Oscar Wilde House at Number One Merrion Square North. Laugh along with Wilde’s comic genius in a series of Wildean movies at the Stella Cinema, the IFI and The Lighthouse. Experience the classic Wildean plays The Importance of Being Oscar and Work Is The Curse of the Drinking Classes from the Wilde house in a room overlooking Merrion Square Park with its iconic Oscar statue. Hear stories of the women who befriended and supported Oscar during his life with an event entitled Wilde’s Women: A Evening with author Eleanor Fitzsimons.  

Oscar’s mother’s famous weekly gatherings of musicians, politicians and poets at One Merrion Square were famous across the 20 years or more the Wildes lives here. Sample what is was like to be at one of these events with our cinematic event – Speranza’s Salon. This is a look inside the house, where you will be taken on a historic journey and see the artists, musicians and poets of today, performing in the rooms where the salons took place.

We hope you enjoy our tribute to Oscar (online and in person) with five days of poetry, music, art, storytelling, performance and film. You can find all the details at the Oscariana website.

Today, Oscar Wilde is most famous across the world for his witty quotes. In 1894, Oscar’s wife Constance put together a collection of Oscar’s best epigrams. She mined them from his society plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and his essays. She called the collection Oscariana.