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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.
The grandson of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, whose life was said to have been ruined after a bitter courtroom clash with Unionist leader and lawyer Sir Edward Carson, has stumbled on a million-to-one discovery about his ancestor s deathbed conversion to Catholicism.
And it was all thanks to the team behind the TV show Give My Head Peace and a Belfast priest who narrowly escaped death in a shooting in South Africa 14 years ago.
The remarkable find came as the normally comedic team from Belfast were preparing a very different type of documentary with Merlin Holland about the links between his grandfather and Carson often dubbed the father of Northern Ireland .
It was a source of grievance for nationalists - and for unionists it was the least worst compromise arrangement. Alvin Jackson on how unionists came around to the idea of Northern Ireland
The partition of Ireland, which was established through the Government of Ireland Act (1920), created controversy when it was first widely discussed, from about 1912 onwards; and it remains a central difficult issue in the public life of the two Irish polities.
The historical narrative of the theme tends conventionally to emphasise the history of English and Scottish migration and colonisation in the north of Ireland, whether informally or through private settlement in Antrim and Down (and Monaghan), or through the formal British plantation scheme pursued in western and southern Ulster from 1609 onwards.