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The Importance of Being Oscar

TCD MS 11437/2/1/3: Portrait photograph of Oscar Wilde by Robert W. Thrupp, Birmingham [1884]. Autographed by OW.
TCD MS 11437/2/1/3: Portrait photograph of Oscar Wilde by Robert W. Thrupp, Birmingham [1884]. Autographed by OW.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), the influential Anglo-Irish playwright, is one of Trinity’s most famous and celebrated historical alumni. The Oscar Wilde Collection (TCD MS 11437), an important resource held in the Manuscripts & Archives Research Library, has recently been catalogued and conserved. Wilde continues to inspire interest and excitement among researchers and the general public, and it is hoped that a schedule of events to promote this fascinating archive will take place in the Library of Trinity College in 2017. Continue reading “The Importance of Being Oscar”

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The thing with no mouth, or, Happy Hallow’een

Margaret Dobbin, nee Cochrane, of Hilden, near Moira (MS 11354)
Margaret Dobbin, nee Cochrane, of Hilden, near Moira (MS 11354)

What better conduit between the quick and the dead can there be than a collection of historical records which purport to let the living hear the voices of those who have gone before? Today’s blog post selects a few items from among the Library’s historical manuscripts which really come into their own at Hallow’een. They include a vengeful seventeenth-century spirit, an old faithful, the classic ghostly ‘coach and pair’ and something genuinely weird from the pen of the great Edith Somerville. This last one will make you shudder.

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