A modern version of the medieval Irish work, "Buile Suibne," features the colorful hero Mad Sweeney, who undertakes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and transformed into a bird at the Battle of Moira
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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 translation not only restores to us a work of historical and literary importance but offers the genius of one of our greatest living poets to reinforce its claims on the reader of contemporary literature.
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