Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish by Seamus Heaney
Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish

Seamus Heaney

Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish

Seamus Heaney

96 pages 1983

3 editions

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Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. Heaney's translatio...

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