Irish Writing on Lafcadio Hearn and Japan

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This will appeal to anyone wishing to enrich their understanding of Japan, those with an interest in Hearn, Irish literary tradition and life and literature in a cross-cultural context.

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Foreword. Preface. 1 Matsue Tribute by the President of Ireland; 2 A Shrine for Lafcadio Hearn 1850-1904; 3 Lafcadio Hearn and His Relations in Dublin; 4 A Profile of Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo); 5 Grandfather Lafcadio Hearn and I; 6 Two Celts in Japan: Enigma of the East; 7 Irish but as Japanese as the Haiku; 8 Lafcadio Hearn in New Orleans; 9 Lafcadio Hearn and Some Irish Writers; 10 The Loose Foot of Lafcadio Hearn; 11 East Irish; 12 Lafcadio Hearn: A Spiritual Odessey; 13 Lafcadio Hearn, W.B. Yeats and Japan; 14 Opening of the Lafcadio Hearn Library in the Embassy of Ireland, Tokyo; 15 An Irishwoman's Diary: A Visit to Matsue; 16 Lafcadio Hearn and Japanese Poetry; 17 The Literary Criticism of Lafcadio Hearn; 18 Lafcadio Hearn and Early Irish and Japanese Mythology and Literature; 19 Hearn's Japan: A Visit to the Oki Islands; 20 The Horror and Ghostly Writings of Lafcadio Hearn; 21 Lafcadio Hearn's Interpretation of Japan; 22 Lafcadio Hearn and the Irish Tradition; 23 W.B. Yeats and Lafcadio Hearn: Negotiating with Ghosts; 24 Hearn, Yeats and the Problem of Edmund Burke; 25 Lafcadio Hearn's First Day in the Orient; 26 Kokoro - A Century Later; 27 The Achievement of Lafcadio Hearn; 28 Some New Hearn Primary Source Material. Index
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