Oscar Wilde moved into a hotel in Paris in February 1898 for what turned out to be the final 18 months of his life. The then 44-year-old Dubliner had been released from Reading jail the previous summer after serving a prison sentence of two years hard labour. That was the British Crown’s punishment for Oscar’s […]
La casa di Oscar Wilde (translation by Anna Bon). Benvenuti nella casa di Oscar Wilde al numero 1 di Merrion Square a Dublino. Questa casa fu costruita intorno al 1760 e fu la primissima costruzione di Merrion Square. Noi siamo un’organizzazione benefica e tutti i fondi raccolti dalle visite alla casa, dai tour guidati […]
This photo of the sculpture for the tomb was taken by Frederick Henry Evans in Jacob Epstein’s Chelsea studio in 1912. OSCAR Wilde died in Paris on November 30, 1900. After his deathbed conversion to Catholicism, a funeral mass took place at Église Saint-Germain-des-Prés and Oscar was then buried at Bagneux cemetery, five kilometres south of […]
Like a young Speranza: The poet Caoimhe Lavelle at the salon revival. Oscar Wilde House is planning to run regular revivals of Speranza’s Salon, which were first held in the 1860s and 1870s. In November 2019 we held the first salon in these rooms for 150 years. In attendance was Eleanor Fitzsimmons, the author […]
Merrion Square Park, which is situated across the street from Oscar Wilde House, is a large public space and home to several State monuments. It is also the location of the Oscar Wilde statue and the Selfish Giant children’s playground, named after one of Oscar’s fairytales, which was published in 1888. It’s a beautiful and […]