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Born To Be Wilde
Merrion Square is a handsome enclave in the heart of Dublin, with large-windowed, red-brick Georgian houses set round a verdant central garden. It was in a house (Number 1, pictured) on the north-west corner of the square that Oscar Wilde grew up. He
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Absurd Waugh story
My late uncle Alexander Waugh’s funeral left those who might describe themselves as ‘bubbly’ with a unique opportunity to simmer down. A great man had died, and no one was in the mood to chatter. I knew my uncle Alexander, who died in July, aged only
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Tessa Castro
IN COMPETITION No 310 you were invited to write a poem called Autumn Feeling. I enjoyed the refrain of Sylvia Smith’s apocopated villanelle: ‘Let’s face it, Keats – the weather’s up the spout.’ Richard Spencer wrote a sort of autumn carol with the ch

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