Will Paisley bid for Edward Carson’s old clothes?

Will Ian Paisley bid for his hero Edward Carson’s court uniforms now coming up for auction? Edward Carson famously defended the Marquis of Queensbury against (h/t Hurdy Gurdy man below for the correction) Oscar Wilde’s libel action in a London court. The court uniforms will come under the hammer in Whyte’s Auction in Dublin on November 14. Ian Paisley has already got a sizeable volume of Carson memorabilia.

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