Des O’Sullivan reports on the wealth of 1916 memorabilia coming up for auction prior to the centenary.

Laoisha O’Callaghan has given an Irish twist to one of Wilde’s great English characters, writes Colette Sheridan

A NEWLY publicised collection of love letters written by Oscar Wilde to a magazine editor are expected to fetch £10,000 (€12,000) when they come up for auction in England next Friday.

OSCAR WILDE had a good line about principles: “I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”

PUT aside that you may feel the crooked oul skinflint got what was coming to him. Put aside your qualms about him being an old, old man and God love his family.