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BBC News By Damon Quinn Did Edward Carson destroy Oscar Wilde? In a new documentary set to screen on BBC NI, Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland asks if Carson deserves the reputation as the man who took down his grandfather. In 1895, Wilde fought a duel in court with a lawyer who he had once called an "old friend". The lawyer was Carson, a fellow Dubliner Wilde knew from Trinity College Dublin, and it was the most scandalous case of Victorian times. It ended in Wilde's ruin and led to his imprisonment for his homosexuality, which was a criminal offence in Britain until 1967.

Irish dramatist Oscar Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas at Oxford in 1893. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images And as Carson is about to open up the arguments for the defence and a string of rent boys are about to give evidence Wilde, defeated, withdraws his case against Queensberry under advice from his lawyer, Sir Edward Clarke. Shortly thereafter the evidence amassed by Queensberry’s team is handed to the British DPP and two criminal cases are taken against Wilde for gross indecency, the first resulting in a hung jury, the second leading to his conviction, prison, bankruptcy, exi...

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...

A new series of programmes commissioned by BBC Northern Ireland to celebrate the work of local artists, poets and musicians will be made available at the end of this month.

Road to Partition: how the border was drawn up A very different border could have been chosen, but by the time the Better Government of Ireland act passed on 23 December 1920, the line between what would become Northern Ireland and the rest of the island had been drawn. • 21 Dec 2020 In early 1919 Lloyd George's coalition government was engaged in the realignment of European borders at the Paris Peace Conference but, by the Autumn of that year, attention was focused again on the Irish question. Conscious that the outdated 1914 Home Rule Act was on the Statute Book and would operate automati...