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’?
Irish duo behind New York’s new $4m Oscar Wilde bar
Literary haunt is home to the longest bar in New York
Kilkenny Arts Festival announces programme for 2017
A focus on Schubert and Stephen Rea performing the work of Oscar Wilde are the main highlights, though the festival features few women in main performing roles
Original key to Oscar Wilde’s prison cell sells for £15,000
Key to cell at Reading Gaol – scene of author’s ballad – auctioned at Sotheby’s in London
Oscar Wilde’s suffering makes holy ground of Reading Gaol
Fintan O'Toole visits the cell where Wilde was imprisoned, and finds it haunted by the ghosts of more anonymous victims
Oscar Wilde: ladies’ man
Oscar may have been gay but many of the key people in his life were women, says author Eleanor Fitzsimons. He also championed women writers and feminists
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