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In 1871, when Wilde was seventeen, his elder fifty percent-sisters Mary and Emily died aged 22 and 24, fatally burned at a dance of their dwelling at Drumacon, Co Cavan. One of many sisters had brushed from the flames of a fireplace or simply a candelabra and her costume caught hearth; in a variety of versions, The person she was dancing with carri