Merrion Square
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Merrion Square is a Georgian garden square on the southside of Dublin city centre.
Clockwise from top: Merrion Square North as seen from Merrion Square Park; Rutland Fountain; 1 Merrion Square North, the childhood home of Oscar Wilde
Soldiers guard the site of the National Memorial to members of the Defence Forces who died in the Service of the State
Oscar Wilde Statue
Merrion Square Park
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential drama
Merrion Square
…Irish Georgian Society have their headquarters on the square. The National Maternity Hospital is on the North terrace. The poet, novelist, and satirist Oscar Wilde lived at No. 1, poet W. B. Yeats lived at No. 82, and Daniel O'Connell at No. 58, the latter of which is now known as the O'Connell House, home to the…
Wilde photographed by Napoleon Sarony in 1882
The Wilde family home on Merrion Square
Oscar Wilde at Oxford in 1876
Photograph by Elliott & Fry of Baker Street, London, 1881