Oscar Wilde
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What’s your county’s claim to fame?
- People
- March 11, 2017, 06:00
CONNACHT Galway Galway has always been a hub for visitors, notably including Christopher Columbus, who pitched up in 1477 and is thought to have atte(...)

A history of Ireland in 100 great quotes
- People
- March 11, 2017, 05:08
Think we’ve missed any important quotes? Let us know by submitting your suggestions here and we will publish a selection of the best 1(...)

Here’s a Wilde idea – we should embrace the rise of robots
- Opinion
- February 21, 2017, 15:48
In response to the imminent threat of job automation we have looked to political leaders promising to stem the economic tide or to tech leaders who ar(...)

Top tips: How to get ahead at university
- Education
- January 10, 2017, 00:00
Literature There is always a temptation when starting university, to be a bit “post-truth” when it comes to the works of literature you have actual(...)

Record Achievement – An Irishman’s Diary on ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’
- Opinion
- December 16, 2016, 00:01
Along with the centenaries of two Russian revolutions, next year will also mark the 50th anniversary of a rather more benign event that, even so, mark(...)

Original key to Oscar Wilde’s prison cell sells for £15,000
- Heritage
- December 13, 2016, 16:54
The original key to Oscar Wilde’s prison cell in Reading Gaol sold at a Sotheby’s auction in London on Tuesday for £15,000 (about €18,000). The pric(...)

Oscar Wilde’s jail cell key up for auction in London
- Fine Art & Antiques
- December 12, 2016, 01:00
The original key to Oscar Wilde’s prison cell, valued at about €6,000, is to go under the hammer at auction in London tomorrow. Sotheby’s auction of(...)

Rebel yell: how the Irish dominated British rock music
- Music
- November 25, 2016, 10:00
British pop music has been celebrated around the world for decades and rightly so. Rather less attention has been paid to an almost invisible s(...)

The Importance of Nothing review: Oscar Wilde absorbed and radically repurposed
- Stage
- November 16, 2016, 19:00
The Importance of Nothing ★★★ Project Arts Centre, Dublin All art is quite useless, Oscar Wilde famously declared, so he should be amused to (...)

‘The memories I hold of my mother are not vast’
- Health & Family
- November 8, 2016, 06:00
I went on a date recently and it was great. Really great. My knees hopped with excitement on the lbh (last bus home) and I sprang into the house close(...)