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ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.66 pp.1-20
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2021.66.1

From a ‘Small Cultural Underground’ to Sligo Folklore: The Early Years of the Yeats International Summer School

Warwick Gould
University of London

Abstract

The Yeats Society of Sligo, and a Yeats Country Arts Festival in May 1958 had been established by what Jim McGarry, one of the seven original plotters, called Sligo’s “small cultural underground.” It had included a lecture on Yeats from Roger McHugh of UCD. An occasional lecture series from Padraic Colum, Ethel Mannin, briefly a mistress of Yeats’s, who donated his letters to the Sligo Co. Library, and Thomas Rice Henn, author of The Lonely Tower, in 1959, followed. The pharmacist, Tony Toher, on the corner of O’Connell and Wine Streets, had on display a set of 38 photographs of Sligo sights prepared and a “Yeats County” map made up to show those pilgrims who came in search of Yeats the geography of the county according to the places in the poems. Starting with this image of Sligo as “underground culture,” the author reflects his own experience when he first attended the Yeats Summer School and traces the history of the Summer School, providing rich information on distinguished Yeats scholars, such as T. R. Henn, Denis Donoghue, Frank Kermode, and famous Irish poets including Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Brendan Kennelly, Thomas Kinsella, and Michael Longley.

초록

본 논문은, 1958년 처음 짐 맥게리(Jim McGarry)를 비롯한 창립 멤버들 이 <슬라이고예이츠학회>(The Yeats Society of Sligo)를 설립하고, <예이츠 컨트리 예술 축제>(Yeats Country Arts Festival)를 그해 5월에 개최하고, 그 이후오늘 까지의 예이츠 섬머스쿨의 연대기적, 문화적, 학술적 성장과정을 Sligo 지도와 예이츠의 전기 적 사실에 기초한 역사적 자료를 제시하면서 세밀하게 구성하고 있다. 또한 이 역사적 배경에 기초하여 예이츠 학자들이 <예이츠 인터네셔널 섬머스쿨>(Yeats International Summer School)을 운영해온 과정을 그린다. 또한 예이츠의 시와 학자들의 예이츠 시 의 이해를 중심으로 자세하게 연대기를 작성하여, 특히 창립초기의 학문적 배경과 문 화적 배경을 탐색하여, 이른바 슬라이고의 “조그만 지하문화”(Sligo’s small cultural underground)에서 성장하여 슬라이고 민속촌으로 변모해가는 모습을 제시하고 있다.

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