140701 assembled Cambridge Companion essay 1997 Jerusha McCormack WILDE'S FICTION(S) THE MIRROR OF DORIAN GRAY It is hard to say anything original about The Picture of Dorian Gray, largely because there is so little that is original in it.…

140701 assembled Cambridge Companion essay 1997 Jerusha McCormack WILDE'S FICTION(S) FRAMING SHAKESPEARE As is usual with Wilde's fictions, 'The Portrait of Mr W. H.' began as a recital. In his accustomed manner, one biographer remarked, W…

Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Oscar The name Oscar is a boy's name of English, Irish origin meaning "God spear, or deer-lover or champion warrior". Oscar has Irish and Norse roots—Norse Oscar comes from the Old English Osgar, a var…

Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills (1854–1900) Owen Dudley Edwards 04 October 2012 https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/29400 Boyhood and education, 1854–1874 Wilde's immediate family was more clerical than any of his fellow writers' of the…

140701 assembled Cambridge Companion essay 1997 Jerusha McCormack WILDE'S FICTION(S) TELLING TALES Wilde's first official expeditions into literary fiction are misleadingly slight. From 1887 onwards, he published a series of stories design…

140701 assembled Cambridge Companion essay 1997 Jerusha McCormack WILDE'S FICTION(S) THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO WILDE Truth for the British culture of the day was a matter of authority; of themoral fundamentalism of a middle-class consensus a…

140701 assembled Cambridge Companion essay 1997 Jerusha McCormack WILDE'S FICTION(S) To talk about Wilde's fiction, is to talk about everything, for Oscar was his own best work of art. Born and educated in Ireland, Wilde came from a countr…

www.irishcentral.com Seanchaí: The storytelling keepers of Ireland's rich folklore heritage These Irish storytellers were the definition of entertainment in ancient Ireland, holding the key to all of Irish folklore, myth, and legend. Maure…

Cong (Irish: Conga, from Cúnga Fheichín meaning "Saint Feichin's narrows") is a village straddling the borders of County Galway and County Mayo, in Ireland. HistoryThe 1111 Synod of Ráth Breasail included Cong (Cunga Féichin) among the fiv…

copy of FAMOUS FREEMASONS, UNIVERSAL CO-MASONRY MASONIC BIOGRAPHIESOscar WildeBorn: Monday, 16 October 1854Died: Friday, 30 November 1900 Oscar Wilde was a writer and Freemason who bequeathed his immortal words to Humanity, providing a gui…

The greening of Oscar Wilde: situating Ireland in the Wilde wars, Jarlath Killeen, 2015 Abstract The importance of Ireland to an understanding of Oscar Wilde has been the subject of contentious discussion in recent years. For one group of …

The Faiths of Oscar Wilde:Catholicism, Folklore and Ireland 2005 Dr Jarlath Killeen B.A. (Dublin) Ph.D. (N.U.I.) F.T.C.D.Associate Professor; Head of School Introduction AbstractThis book argues that the writings of Oscar Wilde can fruitfu…

This is a copy of Britannica, Irish Literature, Shaw and Wilde, the part on Shaw is deleted. Often a seeming disciple, whether of the critics Walter Pater and John Ruskin or of the painter James McNeill Whistler, Wilde nonetheless cut a br…

This is from Library Ireland, Sir William Robert Wills Wilde William Wilde delighted in agling and in the out door life of the West of Ireland, and had summer residences near Cong, and at Illaunroe, in Connemara.Following remarks on Willia…

from WIKIPEDIA Sir William Robert Wills Wilde FRCSI (March 1815 – 19 April 1876) was an Irish otolaryngologist and ophthalmologist, as well as an author of significant works on medicine, archaeology and folklore, particularly concerning hi…

Basic information for understanding Oscar Wilde's poem Ravenna Ravenna Ravenna is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. It was the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 402 unt…

Biography of Ocasr Wilde, quated from The Oscar Wilde Society. 1854: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde born in Dublin Father, William Wilde / Mother, Jane Wilde 1864-71: Studies at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen 1871: Begins studying…

Impersonation A British writer, dandy, fashionable, upper class. The definition of Oscar Wilde widely understood is a kind of persona. It had been carefully produced by Wilde himself. Because the definition and the character of the writer …