Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture

The statue of Oscar Wilde, 2010

The Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture is a collection

of statues in Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland. It com-
memorates the Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde.
The sculpture was unveiled in 1997 and was designed
by Danny Osborne.[1] It gained the nicknames of The
Queer with the Leer[2] and The Fag on the Crag[3][4][5]
from Dubliners.

1 History
The statue of Constance Lloyd in 2013
Danny Osbourne was commissioned by the Guinness Ire-
land Group to create a statue commemorating Oscar
Wilde, which was unveiled in 1997. Erected on an ini- was the rst statue commemorating Wilde since his death
tial budget of IR20,000 which was later increased to 97 years prior.[6] In 2010, the porcelain head of Wilde
IR45,000,[6] the sculpture consisted of a statue of Wilde had to be replaced because cracks were forming on it.
made up of dierent coloured stones from three con- The porcelain head was replaced by a new one made of
tinents as marble was deemed inadequate.[7] His torso white jadeite.[7]
was made of green nephrite jade from British Columbia,
Canada, and pink thulite from Norway.[8] The legs were
made of Norwegian Blue Pearl Granite with the shoes 2 Nicknames
being black Indian charnockite and nished with bronze
shoelace tips.[8] The statue is mounted with Wilde re-
The statue, in keeping with other statues in Dublin, was
clining on a boulder obtained by Osbourne himself from
given nicknames by Dubliners of The Queer with the
the Wicklow Mountains.[8] The sculpture also includes
Leer and The Fag on the Crag.[4][10]
two pillars anking the boulder with one pillar having a
nude pregnant representation of Wildes wife Constance
Lloyd on top. The other one has a male torso represent-
ing Dionysus atop it. Both pillars have inscriptions from 3 References
Wildes poems carved onto them.[9]
[1] Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture. Dublin City Council.
When the statue was unveiled in 1997, it received near Retrieved 19 May 2017.
unanimous praise for the materials used and location near
his childhood home at Number 1 Merrion Square, and [2] Murphy, Colin (2017). 3. Stu Irish People Love.

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O'Brien Press. ISBN 1847179738.

[3] Witty city goes Wilde at Oscar . The Mirror. Re-

trieved 19 May 2017 via HighBeam Research.

[4] Hinkley, Raymond (2005). Dublin English: Evolution and

Change. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 144. ISBN
9027248958.

[5] Evangelista, Stefano (2010). The Reception of Oscar

Wilde in Europe. A&C Black. p. 63. ISBN 1847060056.

[6] Chasing ghosts . The Sunday Herald. Retrieved 19

May 2017 via HighBeam Research.

[7] A geological odyssey for Oscar as Wilde gets a new jade

head . The Irish Times. Retrieved 19 May 2017 via
HighBeam Research.

[8] The surprising geology of Dublins Oscar Wilde statue.

Trinity News. 22 January 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2017.

[9] Wallis, Geo (2002). The Rough Guide to Dublin. Rough

Guides. p. 61. ISBN 1858289130.

[10] http://www.academia.edu/4042930/Sculpting_
Irishness_A_Discussion_of_Dublins_Commemorative_
Statues_of_Oscar_Wilde_and_Phil_Lynott

4 External links
Media related to Statue of Oscar Wilde (Dublin) at
Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 532027N 61502W / 53.34080N

6.25056W
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