In St. Patrick’s Park in Dublin, Ireland, there is a long brick wall with what is called the Literary Parade. The wall has a series of niches, each of which houses a plaque of a famous Irish author.
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A Grave Concern: Pepper Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged author, civil war, clergy, cleveland, epitaphs, grave art, immigrant, ireland, lakeview cemetery, minister, occupation, ohio, reverend, sculpture, soldier, tombstone tales on March 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Oscar Wilde
Posted in Graveless memorials, tagged archbishop ryan park, author, cenotaphs, dublin, ireland, occupation, oscar wilde, paris, playwright, satirist on November 30, 2010| Leave a Comment »
110 years ago on this date, Oscar Wilde died in a hotel room in Paris. His remains and his famous monument covered in lipstick kisses by scores of visitors are in Paris, but Dublin honors their native son with a monument in Archbishop Ryan Park, just steps away from his birthplace.
The statue lounges on a rock, well-dressed and smelling a flower.
Across from him are two square pillars with statues on top. The pillars have been blazoned with all manner of Oscar Wilde’s pithy epigrams. I don’t know if this is endorsed or simply unusually educated graffiti.
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