Until his early twenties, Wilde summered at the villa, Moytura House, which his father had built in Cong, County Mayo. [24] There the young Wilde and his brother Willie played with George Moore. [25] University education: 1870s Trinity College, Dublin Cooper, John. "Attribution of 'I have nothing to declare except my genius' ". Oscar Wilde in America. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019 . Retrieved 12 August 2012. ) Oscar Wilde & le fin de siècle at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles

I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world ... And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom. [207] Jane Wilde was a niece (by marriage) of the novelist, playwright and clergyman Charles Maturin (1780–1824), who may have influenced her own literary career. She believed, mistakenly, that she was of Italian ancestry, [6] and under the pseudonym "Speranza" (the Italian word for 'hope'), she wrote poetry for the revolutionary Young Irelanders in 1848; she was a lifelong Irish nationalist. [7] Jane Wilde read the Young Irelanders' poetry to Oscar and Willie, inculcating a love of these poets in her sons. [8] Her interest in the neo-classical revival showed in the paintings and busts of ancient Greece and Rome in her home. [8]

Schwab, Arnold T.: Review of "George Moore: A Reconsideration", by Brown, Malcolm. Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 10, No. 4, March 1956. pp. 310–314.

Aquien, Pascal (2006). Oscar Wilde: Les mots et les songes: Biographie (in French). Croissy-Beaubourg: Aden. p.30. ISBN 9782848400808 . Retrieved 26 June 2022. Varty, Anne, ed. (2000). Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde. Ware: Wordsworth Poetry Library. p.vi. ISBN 1853264539. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021 . Retrieved 23 August 2020. Krause, Riley (24 July 2019). "Permanent Rainbow Plaque dedicated to Oscar Wilde unveiled at Clapham Junction". Wandsworth Times . Retrieved 25 July 2023.As the voiture rolled through the dark streets that wintry night, the sad story of Oscar Wilde was in part repeated to me... Robert Ross knelt by the bedside, assisting me as best he could while I administered conditional baptism, and afterwards answering the responses while I gave Extreme Unction to the prostrate man and recited the prayers for the dying. As the man was in a semi-comatose condition, I did not venture to administer the Holy Viaticum; still I must add that he could be roused and was roused from this state in my presence. When roused, he gave signs of being inwardly conscious... Indeed I was fully satisfied that he understood me when told that I was about to receive him into the Catholic Church and gave him the Last Sacraments... And when I repeated close to his ear the Holy Names, the Acts of Contrition, Faith, Hope and Charity, with acts of humble resignation to the Will of God, he tried all through to say the words after me. [229] [i] Jullian, Philippe (6 April 2000). Oscar Wilde. Paris: Editions Christian de Bartillat. ISBN 978-2-84100-220-7. Mikhail, E. H. (1979). Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Volume 1 ISBN 9781349039234. Volume 2 ISBN 9781349039265. Castro's Rainbow Honor Walk Dedicated Today: SFist". SFist – San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports. 2 September 2014. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019 . Retrieved 13 August 2019. Epstein produced the design with architect Charles Holden, for whom Epstein produced several controversial commissions in London.