Lafcadio Hearn
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Patrick Lafcadio Hearn was a Greek and Irish writer, translator, and teacher whose work played a significant role in the introduction of the culture and literature of Japan to the mainstream Western w
Hearn in 1889
Plaque on Hearn's home on Gardiner Street, Dublin
The first issue of Ye Giglampz, a satirical weekly published in 1874 by Hearn and Henry Farny
Char-Coal: Cartoon published in New Orleans Daily Item on 25 August 1880
The United States of the Ionian Islands was a Greek state and amical protectorate of the United Kingdom between 1815 and 1864. The successor state of the Septinsular Republic, it covered the territory
Lafcadio Hearn
…Western world an introduction to Japanese culture. Patrick Lafcadio Hearn was born on 27 June 1850 on Lefkada in the Ionian Islands, which were then a British protectorate. His father, Charles Bush Hearn, was an Anglo-Irish medical officer who had been sent to the islands with the army, while his mother was a Greek named…
The 17-member Ionian Senate met in this room in the Palace of St. Michael and St. George, Corfu
30 oboli, Ionian Islands, 1862