ABSTRACT
On 16th January 1892 Oscar Wilde, aged 38, appeared at the Westminster Police Court. It was shortly before the opening night of Lady Windermere's Fan in the West End. Wilde's statue in Anglo-Irish Dublin's Merrion Square, erected in 1997, depicts him in a flamboyant pose. It is widely known as "the quare in the square'. Oscar Wilde had three ambitions. One was to attract attention. The second ambition was to taste the fruit of every tree in the world's garden, ignoring 'no trespassing' signs. Wilde's third ambition was to bring about a world where every person could appreciate all the beauties of life. Wilde's mother Jane Wilde, a passionate poet with the pen name of Speranza, was a prominent supporter of the Irish rebellion of 1848. Charles Stewart Parnell's movement expressed Irish resentment towards the English political class, intensified by the devastating Irish famine of the 1840s.
