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Estonian and Irish Wilde to meet for enlargement

Allowing for a little bit of poetic licence, the paths of two famous writers from Ireland and Estonia have crossed in a small town on the western periphery of Europe.

A whimisical sculpture, unveiled over the weekend, imagines the chance meeting of Oscar Wilde and his Estonian counterpart Eduard Wilde in Galway in Ireland.

Both writers were born in the second half of the 19th century and their now permanent chance meeting marks the Baltic country's accession to the EU.

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