Oscar Wilde, Irish writer, poet, playwright, advocate of the British aestheticist art movement, famous in the 19th century with Bernard Shaw. Born in Dublin doctor family, attended Trinity College Dublin, and graduated from Moderlin College, Oxford University in 1878. Soon after Wilde was born, the family moved to Merion Square 1, where Wilde's father continued to practice medicine, while his mother often entertained artists, writers, intellectuals and the medical community in the city. The bronze statue of Wilde in Merlin Park is facing his former home, and he looks at his former home every day.