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When the headmaster of Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, Ireland, announced the 1870 winner of the Greek Testament Prize as "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde," the other boys broke into predictable laughter. When, the following year, Wilde won a scholarship to Trinity College, his name was put up on the school honour board in gold lettering, his first marquee. Twenty-five years later, when Wilde was in disgrace and in prison, known only as "Convict 3.3," the school would paint his name out, and the headmaster would scrape his initials out of a windowsill. Much later still, the name on the honour board would be regilded. ... FULL STORY »
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