Title Sweeney's flight : based on the revised text of "Sweeney astray" : with the complete revised text of "Sweeney astray" / Seamus Heaney ; photographs by Rachel Giese

Published London : Faber and Faber, 1992

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Description ix, 117 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm Summary Inspired by Seamus Heaney's poems, and notably by his version of the medieval Irish saga Buile Suibhne, the American photographer Rachel Giese has produced a stunning portfolio of pictures of the northern Irish landscape, covering the boundaries of Mad Sweeney's original kingdom of Dal-Arie. The whole of the revised text of "Sweeney astray" is printed in the second part of the book Notes "This [English] version of Buile Suibhne is based on J.G. O'Keeffe's bilingual edition which was published by the Irish Texts society in 1913"--Introd. to Sweeney astray, p. 87 Subject Suibhne Geilt -- Poetry. Magh Rath, Battle of, Ireland, 637 -- Poetry. Tales -- Northern Ireland -- Adaptations. SUBJECT Ireland -- History -- To 1172 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067990 -- Legends http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2014002741 -- Poetry. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001678 Northern Ireland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055927 -- Pictorial works. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001272 Genre/Form Poetry. Illustrated works. Author Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013. Sweeney astray. 1992 Brown, Rachel, 1936- LC no. 92195173 ISBN 0571160158

OTHER TI Buile Suibhne Geilt. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82238078

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