Oscar Wilde was not always Oscar Wilde. The second son of Sir William Wilde, a famous oculist and ear surgeon, and of Jane 'Speranza' Elgee, a staunch Irish nationalist poet, he was christened Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.
Oscar is the name of a warrior poet, son of the great Irish hero Fingal, the leader of the Fianna. The O'Flaherties were an Irish royal family from the Galway region. It is clear that Speranza intended her son to be more than just an ordinary human being: he was to be an Irish Hero.