BBC News
By Damon Quinn
Did Edward Carson destroy Oscar Wilde?
In a new documentary set to screen on BBC NI, Wilde s grandson Merlin Holland asks if Carson deserves the reputation as the man who took down his grandfather.
In 1895, Wilde fought a duel in court with a lawyer who he had once called an old friend .
The lawyer was Carson, a fellow Dubliner Wilde knew from Trinity College Dublin, and it was the most scandalous case of Victorian times.
It ended in Wilde s ruin and led to his imprisonment for his homosexuality, which was a criminal offence in Britain until 1967.