Ghosts and Ghouls: The Undead Imagination of Lafcadio Hearn

Farmleigh House Farmleigh Estate, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) is one of the most interesting, complex and entertaining writers ever to have been connected with Ireland. Born to a Greek mother and an Irish officer-surgeon in the British Army, he was brought up in Dublin from the ages of two to thirteen. From 1869 he established himself in journalism in the […]

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The Foreign Correspondent As Double Agent

Farmleigh House Farmleigh Estate, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland

One of the remarkable achievements of Lafcadio Hearn is that his writings about Japan became loved and appreciated both by those far away in Europe and America who knew little about the country, and by Japanese readers who knew rather a lot. For all foreign correspondents, wherever they find themselves, striking a balance between emphases […]

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Lafcadio Hearn & W.B. Yeats: The Writers who Brought Japan to Ireland

Farmleigh House Farmleigh Estate, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland

'Think of an Irish "wind that shakes the barley". Then think of the East!': How Lafcadio Hearn and W.B. Yeats mirrored Japan in Ireland. W.B. Yeats cited Lafcadio Hearn for his favourite definition of poetry — ‘There is something ghostly in all great art’. Hearn was a world-famous writer when Yeats started out as a […]

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A Biographical Garden – Ireland’s Living Tribute to Lafcadio Hearn

Farmleigh House Farmleigh Estate, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland

An illustrated talk by Agnes Aylward on the history of the Lafcadio Hearn Japanese Gardens in Tramore, Co. Waterford In the 10th anniversary year of the opening of the Lafcadio Hearn Japanese Gardens in Tramore, Co. Waterford, its founder and chair Agnes Aylward will give an illustrated presentation on the genesis, development and exciting future […]

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Japanese Woodblock Printing – The People Behind the Craft

Farmleigh House Farmleigh Estate, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland

An illustrated talk by Rebecca Salter, artist and President of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, introducing the craftspeople behind the materials and tools used in Japanese woodblock printing and some more unusual uses of the technique. Rebecca Salter studied at Bristol Polytechnic and then at Kyoto City University of the Arts in Japan, where […]

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