Give My Head Peace cast: Where are they now
It has been a familiar presence on our TV screens for more than 25 years
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It s hard to believe it, but Give My Head Peace has been a TV presence in Northern Ireland for over 25 years.
Dunkirk star Fionn Whitehead on updating Oscar Wilde for the Instagram age
A new theatre-film production imagines Dorian Gray as a young man who enters a Faustian pact to maintain the perfection of his online image
Fionn Whitehead stars in The Picture of Dorian Gray
Credit: Barn Theatre
In his annus mirabilis of 1891, Oscar Wilde wrote his first successful play (Lady Windermere’s Fan), most of Salome, a long political essay and four books, among them his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. A Faustian thriller for the age of aestheticism, the scenario of Dorian Gray – which Wilde had already published in a shortened form in a magazine – has become as familiar as an heirloom: admiring a portrait of himself, the hedonistic anti-hero is granted his wish to stay fresh-faced, while the painting, stashed in his attic, becomes grotesque in direct proportion to his debauchery and vice. The artwork decays; the body in nature achieves the perfection of artifice.
By Irish America Staff
One of Oscar Wilde’s wishes was that he be talked about 100 years after his death. Well, his wish has been granted. November 30 marked the centenary of the writer’s passing at the age of 46. To commemorate this anniversary, his grandson Merlin Holland in conjunction with the late Rupert Hart-Davis has published
The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, spanning his years as a student at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen to his death in 1900. As Holland points out in the Introduction, “To read his letters, particularly those written to intimate friends without thought of publication, is as close as we shall come to the magic of hearing him in person.” The book is available through Henry Holt publishers ($45.00). ♦
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