Oscar Wilde

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It is not always easy being green when communicating with the neighbours

Oscar Wilde’s former street named the most expensive in England

Average house price on Tite Street in Chelsea is £28.9m, says mortgage lender Halifax

100 independent Irish online shops for Christmas presents

There’s no excuse for not shopping locally this Christmas as ever more Irish retailers go online

Greek myths, fairy tales and now TikTok: our enduring love affair with horror

Halloween horror taps into cultural roots going back to ancient Greece via the Romantics

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À la recherche des pubs perdus – Frank McNally on visiting Paris again

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Sean Moncrieff: People act like I chose this surname, just to be difficult or pretentious

In multi-cultural western societies, name-mangling has become infused with politics

October travel: From rewilding in Meath to going Wilde for afternoon tea

Plus: Take a Monaghan mini-break in gorgeous Glaslough or discover cultured Dublin

There’s a difference between shyness and social anxiety

Quiet people rest assured, brilliant conversationalists are a pain in the neck

End of the Line – Frank McNally on the dubious legacy of the last Earl of Clanrickarde

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Piccadilly Circus – Frank McNally on the colourful, coded history of a famous London address

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A cucumber sandwich with an Irish twist

Theses are far from traditional cucumber sandwiches, but are just as posh

Coward and Mac Liammóir shared a secret, seldom-spoken language

London Letter: A new Noël Coward exhibition reminds us of carefully constructed, parallel lives

Bank of Ireland sale will inevitably reignite vexatious issue of banker bonuses

Market Beat: Market sentiment towards remaining Irish banks has picked up

‘I want you to help me with a marriage proposal in this article’

The dark US pop poet John Murry lives in Ireland. And he’d like a hand with a personal matter

Final sales of the season leave auction buyers spoiled for choice

Signed copies of Joyce’s Ulysses and Wilde’s Poems, and works by Paul Henry to feature

Reading Gaol: The battle to save Oscar Wilde’s prison cell

Moves to make the jail a public space have stalled. Could it yet become a ‘gay landmark’?

Travel News: Wildean walks and wedding plans

Refurbished Carton House reopens, Ashford Castle rolls outs gourmet getaways

Richard Mosse: ‘The idea of the artist going it alone is bogus’

Mosse ‘weaponises the aesthetics’ of military-grade film to force us not to look away

Paris Disagreement – Frank McNally on the fall of the Paris Commune, 150 years ago this week

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Penthouse residences at InterContinental Dublin with 24-hour room service from €1.2m

Trio of hotel properties for sale offer five-star living at the heart of the capital’s embassy belt

Prince Philip: Irascible, possibly unfaithful – and, since The Crown, so incredibly glamorous

Netflix’s hit royal drama has shaped how millions think of the late duke of Edinburgh

Bard of the Boulevards – Frank McNally on poet Charles Baudelaire, born 200 years ago on this day

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