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This week marked the birthday of Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, who was born at Dublin\u2019s Westland Row and is today buried in the impressive Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris.\nAn international celebrity and among the first such generation of stars, Wilde\u2019s story is well known.\nBut little known is the tale of how he launched himself onto the world stage - embarking on a year long tour of the United States in 1882. To him, \u201cAmerica is not a country, it is a world.\u201d he said.\nDonal Fallon joins Gavan Reilly for another episode of Hidden Histories to discuss.\nListen and subscribe to On The Record with Gavan Reilly\xa0on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.\n\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\nDownload, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.\n\xa0\xa0 \nYou can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.