This selection of papers read at the International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature's 1990 conference held in Kyoto includes essays on folk memory as history, folklore, place names in early Irish & Japanese literature, Irish novels in an early 19th-century German court library, echoes of Ireland in New Zealand literature, Irish regionalism, magic realism, and a range of Irish and internaional writers. Seamus Heaney was the conference's keynote speaker.