Oscar Wilde’s grandson has condemned a new ... first submitted designs for the sculpture in 1995, avering that a statue of ...

Like Hambling’s statue of Oscar Wilde – featuring dear Oscar rising from his coffin to smoke a cigarette – it’s over-articulated and silly. Others are monstrous in their blandness.

The Oscar Wilde Awards are organised by the US-Ireland Alliance to celebrate the contribution Ireland makes to film, television and music. Previously announced honorees are actors John C.