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Learn with Hearn: Lafcadio Hearn’s Japan from Enchantment to Education

Chester Beatty Dublin Castle, Dublin 2 Dublin 2, Dublin

Lafcadio Hearn enjoys great acclaim as a literary genius who brought the folklore of Japan to Westerners. Yet behind the novelist lived Hearn the teacher. As a translator, he saw learning as the source of intercultural understanding. As a mediator, Hearn advocated a cosmopolitan outlook on Japan. Caring about cultural and social tensions, he sought...

“No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs”: The Irish in Multicultural Britain

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ONLINE TALK Writer and historian Kieran Connell sheds new light on the experiences of the hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants who made lives for themselves in Britain over the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on his new book, Multicultural Britain: A People’s History, Connell explores the discrimination the Irish experienced and how...