Oscar Wilde's deathbed conversion and the truth about his notorious court case with Edward Carson by the writer's grandson
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 hi...
Source: belfasttelegraph.co.uk