Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney

Sweeney Astray

Seamus Heaney

75 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

fiction poetry dark reflective slow-paced
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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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