A Study on the Literature of St Patrick's Purgatory in Lough Derg

前往德格湖车站岛上的圣帕特里克炼狱的朝圣之旅具有一种非凡的吸引力，吸引了许多爱尔兰作家。八百多年来，德格湖一直是爱尔兰文学的舞台。在这项研究中，通过19世纪中叶到20世纪80年代的德格湖文学来考察爱尔兰社会的转型。本研究包括三个部分：(1)德格湖文学分析：主要分析和考察的是威廉·卡尔顿的《德格湖朝圣者》(1843)、帕特里克·卡瓦纳写于20世纪40年代的诗歌《德格湖》和谢默斯·希尼的诗集《车站岛》(1984)。每一位作家的关注点都集中在艺术创造力的来源、艺术自由或艺术自由的缺乏，以及通过场所对过去的关注。当然，每一部作品都是作家重新定义自己和他的社会的挑战。(2)德尔格湖与当代爱尔兰社会的社会学分析。与教堂出席人数的急剧下降形成对比的是，德格湖朝圣活动继续蓬勃发展。这方面是通过在德尔格湖的田野调查和对朝圣者的采访(2002年)，以及对通俗文学和报纸文章的分析来检验的。德格湖文学，尤其是希尼的《S》，吸引了一种新型的‘游客’，这可以假设那里有另类旅游。(3)爱尔兰与日本朝圣文学的比较研究。为了突出德罗湖朝圣的特点，阿尔斯特大学的麦卡特尼博士与麦卡特尼博士一起对四国的88座寺庙进行了实地朝圣。

The pilgrimage to St. Patrick's purgatory on Station Island of Lough Derg has an extraordinary magnetism that attracts many Irish writers. Lough Derg has been an arena of Irish literature over eight hundred years. In this study, the transformation of Irish society is examined through Lough Derg literature from the mid-nineteenth century to 1980s. This research consists of three parts : (1) Analysis of Lough Derg Literature : William Carleton's 'Lough Derg Pilgrim' (1843), Patrick Kavanagh's poem, 'Lough Derg', written in 1940s, and Seamus Heaney's sequence of poems, 'The Station Island' (1984) are the works mainly dealt with and examined. Each writer's concerns are focused on the sources of artistic creativity, artistic freedom or the lack of it, and the preoccupation with the past through place. Certainly, each work is the writer's challenge of redefining himself and his society. (2) Lough Derg and the sociological analysis of contemporary Irish society. In contrast to the drastic decline in numbers of church attendance, Lough Derg pilgrimage continues to thrive. This aspect is examined through the fieldwork at Lough Derg and interviewing of the pilgrims (2002), and the analysis of popular literature and newspaper articles. Lough Derg literature, especially Heaney' s, attracts a new type of 'tourists' and this can make an assumption of alternative tourism there. (3) Comparative study of pilgrimage and pilgrim literature between Ireland and Japan. In order to highlight the characteristics of Lough Derg pilgrimage, the fieldwork of pilgrimage to 88 temples at Shikoku (in part) was done with Dr McCartney from University of Ulster.