Oscar Wilde Memorial Statue & His Childhood Home In Dublin
The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colourful stone.While just across the road is his childhood home.
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Oscar Wilde in the park Dublin Ireland
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Dublin I Day One I Arrival, Trinity College & the Oscar Wilde Statue!
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I love trips abroad but I had never been to Ireland... until now!
In this first vlog we travel from Stansted Airport to Dublin (on a Ryanair flight... of course!). Once we've touched down at Dublin Airport we get a bus into the city centre and leave our bags at the hotel before having a wander around Grafton Street (SHOPPING!)! After a spot of lunch, we are left speechless at the gorgeous architecture of Trinity College Dublin and queue (in the rain!) for the Book of Kells exhibition and Old Library. We then go in search of TCD's most famous alumnus - Oscar Wilde himself in Merrion Square Park. We end our day indulging in some amazing food (and alcohol...) at Bar Rua! Sláinte!
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Wilde Journey
The Irish literary tradition is one of the most illustrious in the world, and Dublin in particular is renowned for producing some of the finest poets, playwrights and authors, with Oscar Wilde being one of the most revered.
Born in Dublin in 1854, this iconic poet and playwright penned classics like The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray. The flamboyant author is commemorated in Merrion Square in Dublin, where a statue of Wilde lies on a rock, just opposite the house he lived in as a child.
Famous Oscar Wilde quotes included in the video:
‘To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.’
‘If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.’
‘I can resist anything except temptation.’
‘To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.’
‘My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other peoples.’
‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars’
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DUBLIN, EXPLORING beautiful MERRION SQUARE PARK (IRELAND) ????️
SUBSCRIBE: - Let's walk through this beautiful park in central Dublin and admire Oscar Wilde's famous and very spectacular statue. Vic Stefanu, vstefanu@yahoo.com. Dublin, capital of the Republic of Ireland, is on Ireland’s east coast at the mouth of the River Liffey. Its historic buildings include Dublin Castle, dating to the 13th century, and imposing St Patrick’s Cathedral, founded in 1191. City parks include landscaped St Stephen’s Green and huge Phoenix Park, containing Dublin Zoo. The National Museum of Ireland explores Irish heritage and culture.
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'From Decadence to Despair' - Oscar Wilde Exhibition
Trinity College Dublin is celebrating one of its most famous and celebrated graduates with an exhibition entitled 'From Decadence to Despair' in Trinity's Long Room and an accompanying online exhibition -
The first major Irish exhibition on Oscar Wilde, it features letters, photographs, theatre programmes, books and memorabilia maps out the Anglo-Irish playwright's meteoric rise to fame and also his dramatic fall from grace.
Speakers:
Curator of the exhibition and Assistant Librarian at Trinity, Caoimhe Ní Ghormáin
Professor Darryl Jones, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
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È una delle più prestigiose università al mondo e la più blasonata d’Irlanda.
Fondata nel 1952 ha visto allievi come Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker e Samuel Beckett. Da non perdere!!!
Oscar Wilde's Tomb Marked From Lipstic
Oscar Wilde's Tomb Marked From Lipstic
The memorial of the famous 19th century Irish writer and poet, Oscar Wilde, lies in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France. The memorial, sculpted from a 20-ton piece of Hopton Wood rock in Derbyshire, England, unveiled to the London press in June 1912, and covered with thousands of traces of red lipstick. What do you think, who is resting? A kiss may ruin a human life, Oscar Wilde once wrote. It can also ruin the stonework of a tomb, judging by the extraordinary graffiti – kisses in lipstick left by admirers – that for years have been defacing and even eroding the massive memorial to the Irish dramatist and wit in Paris's Père Lachaise cemetery.
Wilde died in the city in 1900, aged 46. His restored tomb will finally be unveiled this week, newly protected from his devotees.For years visitors would confine themselves to leaving gently admiring billets doux dedicated to the creator of The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windermere's Fan. All that changed in the late 1990s, when somebody decided to leave a lipstick kiss on the tomb. Since then lipstick kisses and hearts have been joined by a rash of red graffiti containing expressions of love, such as: Wilde child we remember you, Keep looking at the stars and Real beauty ends where intellect begins. Surprisingly, perhaps, most are written by women.
Merlin Holland, Wilde's grandson, said the lipstick had become a serious problem because the grease sinks into the stone. Every cleaning was causing a bit more stone to wear away, he said. No amount of appeals to the public did any good at all. Kissing Oscar's tomb on the Paris tourist circuit has become a cult pastime, which is proving impossible to break. Even if one could catch someone in flagrante delicto – there is a €9,000 (£7,700) fine – most perpetrators are probably tourists, so they would be home before the French authorities could bring them to court.
From a technical point of view, the tomb is close to being irreparably damaged. Each cleaning has rendered the stone more porous necessitating a yet more drastic cleaning. With the Paris authorities offering a fraction of the cost of preserving the memorial, the Irish have come to the rescue, paying for it through the office of public works in Dublin, which is responsible for a number of Irish monuments and buildings overseas. They have paid for a radical cleaning and de-greasing of the tomb, as well as a glass barrier which will surround it to prevent the kissers from causing further damage.
Today the monument is viewed by thousands of visitors every year. A tradition developed whereby visitors would kiss the tomb after applying lipstick to their mouth, thereby leaving a print of their kiss. In 2011 a glass barrier was erected to make the monument 'kiss proof'.
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O'Connell Street in Dublin, Ireland - Dublin Attractions - A MUST VISIT Famous Street in Dublin
Anyone who has visited Dublin, Ireland, will have walked O'Connell Street - its the main street in the city and has been for many years - claiming its own place in history. Full of locals and tourists - O'Connell Street is often a bus stop for any sightseeing or people looking for a hotel for a weekend in Dublin.
Should we refer to O'Connell street as one of the main places that define the trip to Dublin? Actually, whether you are going out for a walk, jumping on the hop-on hop-off bus tour, or else trying to spot out the most famous magnificent places which you should visit in this city, you will end up stumbling upon O'Connell street for being an old famous one where one could enjoy shopping, go for a walk, or even enjoy some of the old statues for the famous figures which are placed there.
Before coming to the name O'Connell, this street has gone through two different times and dealt with two different names; it was first referred to as Drogheda Street and which was named after Henry Moore, Earl of Drogheda, until it was widened and renamed to Sackville Street after Lionel Sackville, first Duke of Dorset, from the late 1700 until 1924. Eventually, the street was called O'Connell in honour of Daniel O'Connell, a nationalist leader of the 19th century and whose statue stands at the lower end of the street facing O'Connell Bridge.
The reason why we always consider it an important pin on the map of Dublin which tourists will be following is the location of the street, which is found in the heart of Dublin city, the capital of Ireland, and thus brings all those tourists to it. O'Connell street runs through the centre of the city, O'Connell Bridge, Westmoreland Street, College Green and Dame Street, terminating at City Hall and Dublin Castle and is also situated north the River Liffey; so one would definitely come across these places while being in Dublin.
Regardless its location and the different things one could do in this street from shopping to enjoying the nightlife, it is important to mention all the different statues which you will get the chance to come across and see while walking in this street and which come in addition to the famous statue of Daniel O'Connell which stands at the lower end of the street where the O'Connell Bridge is located.
From the different statues that you will manage to come across in O'Connell, there is the William Smith O'Brian which was moved to the street in 1929. There is also the Sir John Gray which is carved entirely of white Sicilian marble. Inside this street you will also come across James Larkin which is an expressive bronze statue atop a granite plinth and on which the birth date on Larkin was written incorrectly but was then written in the right way. There is also the Father Theobald Mathew, Charles Stewart Parnell, and Nelson's Pillar.
There are also some famous and important buildings situated around O'Connell street, such as St. Mary's Pro Cathedral, the Rotunda Hospital, Trinity college ( and the Bank of Ireland.
The old O'Connell street is not like the modern one in regards of its wideness and the shops found in it. There were other things done to the place and which are related to removing things and substituting them with others, such as the removal of all the London Plane trees and the installation of over 200 replacement of various species and lots of other things which were done as some kind of trying to correct the wrong things done in the past and turning this street into a more modernized place for people to walk, enjoy their times, and at the same time come across different statues and public art, since the longest public art in the world is found in O'Connell street.
There are actually lots of reasons why this street is considered a must when it comes to the different popular places and attractions that one will visit and definitely pass by in Dublin, Northern Ireland.
There are different places and landmarks that one will need to visit when it comes to Dublin, the capital city of Ireland, and which are the Dublinia Viking Museum that reveals the history of the vikings and the medieval times ( there is also Grafton street which is considered the number one shopping destination in Dublin ( as well as going to the Merrion Square and walking across its famous garden where the statue of Oscar Wilde is located ( and going to the place where the famous statue of Molly Malone is located to know more about the history behind the song as well as take some pictures with it (
Wondering what to do in Dublin? Add a walk along O'Connell Street into your list, you will probably do it anyway :-)
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Oscar Wilde's Tomb
On Boxing day I walked from the 6th arrondissment to the 20th and came upon Pere Lachaise and - Osar Wilde's tomb!!!
Oscar Wilde: A journey of Irish Genius
Chasing the dramatic life of Oscar Wilde, from Ireland to Britain
[ Ireland ]
Birthplace：1 Merrion Square, Dublin
Education: Trinity College, Dublin
Statue：William Street, Galway
[ Britain ]
Education: Magdalen College, Oxford
Social Meeting:
Oscar Wilde Bar, Hotel Cafe Royal, London
Statue：A Conversation with Oscar Wilde
Adelaide Street, London
Memorial: Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, London
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Oscar Wilde's House, Dublin
He was not born here but in a house around the corner. The house in this video is now in the hands of the American College. Unfortunately, it is not open to the public.