Hiroko Ikeda is associate professor in the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, and a committee member of IASIL Japan and of the Yeats Society of Japan. She holds an M.A. from University College, Dublin and a PhD from Kyoto University. Her primary interest is in Irish poetry in Irish and in English from the 18th century. Her recent articles deal with Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill', Michael Hartnett, W.B. Yeats, and Charlotte Brooke.

Kazuo Yokouchi is professor of English Literature at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan, and a permanent committee member of the James Joyce Society of Japan. He holds a PhD from Kyoto University. His research interests are in British and Irish fiction from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, especially Carlyle, Thackeray, Joyce and Malcolm Lowry.