'From Decadence to Despair' - Oscar Wilde Exhibition
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Channel: Trinity College Dublin · 2017 · Education
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 - http://www.tcd.ie/library/exhibitions/wilde/ 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 http://www.tcd.ie/
