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Acknowledgements ix In working on this study for the past ten years or so I have been aided and encouraged in so many ways and I would like to express my thanks to the following people for this support and help: David Norris, Jeff Dudgeon, Tonie Walsh, Katherine O’Donnell, Noreen Doody, Gearoid O’Brien the John Broderick archive in Athlone, Vanessa Carswell, Hugh McFadden, David Rose, Lucy McDiarmid, Caroline Williams, Terence Brown, Nicholas Grene, Alan Sinfield, Maria Pramaggorie, James H. Murphy, Joan Deane, Dermot Keogh, Pat Coughlan, Graham Allen, Alex Davis, Lee Jenkins, Mary Breen, Cliona O’Gallchoir, Heather Laird, Eamon O’Carragain, Gwenda Young, Tina O’Toole, Brian Cliff, Roy Foster, David Alderson, Joseph Bristow, Ed Madden, Sean Kennedy, Joseph Valente, Maud Ellman, Caroline Walsh, Anne Mulhall, Elizabeth Kirwan, Michael C. Cronin, Mary McAuliffe, Emma Donoghue, Edmund White, Colm Tóibín, Adrian Goodwin, Michael Waldron, Danny Pyburn, Lance Pettitt, Anne Fogarty, Derek Hand, Declan Kiberd, Chris Morash, Clair Wills, Barry Monaghan, Ken Rooney, Tina Morin, Andrew King, Alan Gibb, Ger Fitzgibbon, Pat Crowley, Siobhan Mullally, Jennifer Crowley, Elaine Hurley, Carol Quinn, Moynagh Sullivan, Sinead Gleeson, Jerusha McCormack, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Hugh McFadden, Davis Coakley and Thomas Kilroy. I would like to thank Margot Backus in particular for her generosity in reading some of these chapters and in her insightful and stimulating comments. The project was greatly aided by a University College Cork (UCC) Arts Faculty research grant, by the support of the UCC sabbatical leave committee and of President Michael Murphy, Professor Colbert Kearney, Professor James Knowles and the UCC English Department Research committee. The cost of the publication of this book has been helped greatly by a National University of Ireland publications grant; a UCC College of Arts, Celtic studies and Social Science publications grant; and a grant from the UCC School of English. Grateful thanks especially go to Professor Pat Coughlan for the School of English grant. I want to thank the following scholars and institutions for invitations to lecture on Wilde and for insightful and helpful feedback: my friend x Acknowledgements Dr Pilar Villar Argaiz, University of Granada, Spain; Juan Jose Delaney of Universidad del Salvadore, Buenos Aires, Argentina; the Abbey Theatre, Dublin; Dr Sarah McKibben at the University of Notre Dame, USA; Dr Vincent Quinn of the University of Sussex; Dr Fintan Walsh and Dr Eve Patten at Trinity College, Dublin and all at the Long Room Hub; Dr Sean Kennedy, at St Mary’s College, Halifax, Canada and Professor Elizabeth Cullingford at the University of Austin at Texas. Some of this book was completed at the Irish College in Rome in 2007 and I wish to thank the archivist, my good friend Vera Orchel, and also the vice-rector Fr Albert McDonnell and Rector Liam Bergin for their kindness and hospitality. Likewise I am very grateful to Boston College for giving me the Burns Visiting Professorship in 2006, for a very productive and pleasant time there and for all the help and support from Marjorie Howes, Liz Sullivan, Rob Savage, Vera Krielkamp, Kevin Kenny, Jim Smith, Joe Nugent and Tom Hachey. Sections of this book have been published already: ‘The Wilde Trials and Ireland’, Éire/Ireland, Autumn 2005; ‘Wilde and his Irish Biographers’, The Wildean, No 21, July 2002; ‘Wild(e) Irish’, Ireland in Proximity, ed. Alderson (London: Routledge, 1999) For invaluable assistance with my research I would like to thank Peggy Shannon Baker, who worked with me as a research assistant, Tomás Irish, Dr Ciaran Wallace, Dr Gerard Dineen and the librarians at the Boole Library, UCC, Trinity College, Dublin, the National Library of Ireland, the National Archives of Ireland, Burns Library, Boston College and William Clark Andrews Library, UCLA. The text was edited with great care by Winifrid Power and Jennifer Harding. Tomás Irish very kindly helped me with the cover photograph and at Cork University Press, Maria O’Donovan and Mike Collins brought the book to print with their usual dedication and hard work. I thank them both for all the support and help. It was a pleasure working with them. As always, I relied on my agent Jonathan Williams for his professionalism , his keen eye for copy-editing and his good humour and kindness. Special thanks on a personal level are due to Donald O’Driscoll, Celine and John Walshe, Ria White, Oonagh Cooney and Sheamus Walshe, Anne Fitzgerald, John Bergin, Michael Dillon, Jeremy Wales, Eoin Quinn, Pat Nestor, Richard Deane, Neil Ward, Rory...