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 […]
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 […]
'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 […]
