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In 1871, when Wilde was seventeen, his elder half-sisters Mary and Emily died aged 22 and 24, fatally burned in a dance of their house at Drumacon, Co Cavan. Among the list of sisters had brushed in opposition to the flames of a fire or simply a candelabra and her dress caught fire; in different variations, the man she was dancing with carried her