William Wilde

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Colm Tóibín. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Colm Tóibín walks the ‘intense, haunted’ streets of Dublin
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  • October 22, 2018, 10:15

There is a peculiar intensity about some streets in Dublin that gets more layered the longer you live in the city and the more stray memories and asso(...)

Maria Edgeworth, as painted by John Downman (1807)
Postcard from the Edgeworths’ Town – An Irishman’s Diary about literary Longford

Edgeworthstown in Co Longford will be forever associated with the great novelist Maria Edgeworth, whose 250th anniversary falls next January 1st. But (...)

Bective House, aerial shot indicates poor condition of house and buildings, and its magnificent surroundings
Who can save Bective House?

Once described as one of Co Meath’s finest estates and “a trophy buy” for a Celtic-tiger era millionaire, the 180-acre walled demesne Bective House o(...)

William Wilde: Oscar’s father set about classifying the diseases of Ireland in 1851
Diseases are symptoms of changes in society

In 1851 William Wilde, physician and father to Oscar Wilde, . He grouped them into categories: “zymotic, epidemic, endemic and contagious diseases”, (...)

Review: Wilde’s Women, by Eleanor Fitzsimons
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  • December 12, 2015, 01:15

This lively new study deals with Oscar Wilde’s professional links with women writers, journalists, actors and activists and connects these experiences(...)

House with a Wilde history in Blackrock for €975,000

Phoenix Terrace lies perpendicular to Rock Road, almost opposite the Blackrock Clinic, with views of Blackrock Park and Dublin Bay. Built in the 18(...)

An aerial view of the Rathcroghan site near Tulsk in county Roscommon
New survey finds further evidence of Rathcroghan as a “Tara of the west”

When Queen Maeve of that infamous Cooley cattle raid made Roscommon’s Rathcroghan her royal home, it was already known as a cult or ritualistic centre(...)

Michael James Ford and Gerard Lee in Mangan's Last Gasp
Review: Mangan’s Last Gasp

Bewley’s Cafe Theatre, Dublin *** Do poets get the biographies they deserve? Or is it bette(...)