Sweeney Astray

Sweeney Astray

by Hewaney, Seamus

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Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne - the first complete translation since 1913. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and exiled to the trees at the Battle of Moira. The poetry spoken by this mad king is among the richest and most immediately appealing in the whole canon of Gaelic literature.
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