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Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish is a version of the Irish poem Buile Shuibhne written by Seamus Heaney, based on an earlier translation by J.G. O'Keeffe. [2] [3] The work was first published in 1983 and won the 1985 PEN Translation Prize for verse, the first year the prize was awarded as such.
- Seamus Heaney
- 1983
12 de set. de 2012 · Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's translation of the medieval Irish text Buile Suibhne, ‘The Madness of Suibhne,’ a tale in verse and prose that describes how Suibhne (Sweeney), an Ulster king, clashes with a local cleric, Rónán, and having been cursed by the cleric, goes mad during the battle of Magh Rath (modernised to Moira ...
16 de ago. de 2022 · Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney. Publication date 1983 Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English.
Sweeney astray. by. Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013. Publication date. 1984. Topics. Suibhne Geilt -- Poetry, Tales -- Northern Ireland -- Adaptations, Ireland -- History -- To 1172 -- Legends -- Poetry. Publisher. London ; Boston : Faber and Faber.
Sweeney Astray is a modern version of Buile Suibhne, a medieval Irish tale about a mad king who wanders in the wilderness. The poem combines the ancient and the modern, the mythical and the personal, and showcases Heaney's mastery of language and imagination.
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 turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira.
Seamus Heaney began translating the Middle Irish romance Buile Suibhne in 1972, but his ‘version from the Irish’, Sweeney Astray, wasn't published until 1983. This article explores Heaney's adaptation of metaphors from J.G. O'Keeffe's dual-language edition of Buile Suibhne, both in the notebook draft of 1972 and in the later published ...
