More Lives Than One: The Remarkable Family of Oscar Wilde through the Generations

By Gerard Hanberry

The story of Oscar Wilde and his extraordinary family is a remarkable one. His parents, the brilliant Sir William and flamboyant Lady Jane, also led amazing lives and experienced triumph and tragedy. His wife Constance Wilde had to change her name and live in exile until her death. An epic family saga against a background of rebellion and famine, this has new revelations on Oscar’s time in prison, his father’s cover up of his illegitimate daughters’ deaths and Oscar's mother’s dire poverty before her death. By linking the generations a more complete picture emerges of a brilliant Irishman whose tragic fall still breaks the reader’s heart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Collins Press
• Release date: Sep 29, 2011
• ISBN: 9781848899438

Gerard Hanberry

GERARD HANBERRY, a prizewinning poet, lives in Galway, Ireland. He has published three collections of poetry and his work has been widely published in literary journals and newspapers. He won the Brendan Kennelly/Sunday Tribune Poetry Prize and the Originals Short Story Prize at Listowel Writers’ Festival and has been shortlisted for numerous prizes including a Hennessy Award. He holds an MA in Writing from NUI Galway where he delivers courses on creative writing and poetry. He also teaches English at St Enda’s College, Salthill.