'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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
