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cranky radical, fussy aesthete, generalist, partner of @bhoggard
Japan was suddenly big in North America in the 1880’s: “..the influence which Eastern art is having on us in Europe, and the fascination of all Japanese work…” - Oscar Wilde, from a lecture he gave on a tour in the US, 1882 https://t.co/Xwlvx0PJgw https://t.co/kHCefmAd4f
Dubliner, FSA, FRHistS; mostly medieval with an unhealthy interest in James Joyce. Níl ann ach mo thuairim féin.https://t.co/axiJefYcA2
It's only taken me 22 years, since I gave a lecture on Finnegans Wake and the Book of Kells on the premises (Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing, TCD), to finish it properly. Can't quite believe it!