John Wyse Jackson was born in Kilkenny in 1953, and educated in
Dublin. His previous works on Oscar Wilde are Aristotle at
Afternoon Tea: the Rare Oscar Wilde and Wilde about St Louis, an
account of Oscar’s two days in the American city in 1882. Other
books, either solo or in collaboration, include Myles Before Myles:
a Selection of the Earlier Writings of Flann O’Brien, James Joyce's
Dubliners: An Annotated and Illustrated Edition, Phenolphthalein: A
Fictional Quest for the Eighth Plot, John Stanislaus Joyce: The
Life of James Joyce’s Father, Flann O’Brien at War, We All Want to
Change the World: A Life of John Lennon, Dublin: Poetry of Place
and, with the Ulster artist Hector McDonnell, Ireland’s Other
Poetry: Anonymous to Zozimus, Ulster’s Other Poetry and Dublin’s
Other Poetry.
An occasional contributor to the Sunday Times, New Statesman,
Spectator etc., and to numerous Irish publications, John has
written, lectured and broadcast on various matters in Ireland,
Britain and the United States. For many years he was joint
owner/manager of John Sandoe’s Bookshop in Chelsea, London, before
returning to Ireland in 2003 with his wife, Ruth, and their
children. Currently he is generally to be found in Zozimus Bookshop
(www.zozimusbookshop.com), with a large secondhand and antiquarian
stock at 86 Main Street, Gorey, County Wexford, where he hosts a
regular Ulysses study group and publishes the occasional book,
usually of local interest.
Emma Byrne is a graphic designer and artist. She is a graduate of
Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. She has won
numerous awards for her design including The IDI (Irish Design
Institute) Graduate Designer of the Year, the IDI Promotional
Literature Award for her work on Brown Morning, and a Children’s
Books Ireland Bisto Merit Award for her work on Something Beginning
With P: New Poems from Irish Poets. She has illustrated many books,
including Best-Loved Oscar Wilde, Best Loved Yeats, The Most
Beautiful Letter in the World by Karl O’Neill, a special edition of
Ulysses by James Joyce, and A Terrible Beauty by Mairéad Ashe
Fitzgerald. Her other books are Irish Thatch and, with Eoin
O’Brien, Best-Loved Irish Ballads.
here’s a book as brilliantly accomplished as the life of its gifted
subject Oscar Wilde
*irishcentral.com*
elevates itself from the pack through beautiful graphic design. The
book is divided into sections with stylized images that draws on
some of the classic Art Nouveau and Aubrey Beardsley illustrations
of Wilde’s time. It’s a lovely looking book, and one that may spur
readers unfamiliar with Wilde’s life to seek out a biography or
his full-length work
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