Sweeney's Revival: Translating and transcending the liminal (Paperback)

Contents: Sweeney, W. B. Yeats, and James Joyce ? Double Visions: Austin Clarke’s ‘The Frenzy of Suibhne’ ? ‘The black earth my earth- bed’: Derek Mahon’s The Snow Party ? ‘A soul journey’: Tom Mac Intyre’s ‘Sweeney among the Branches’ ? Reviving and Revived: Seamus Heaney’s Sweeney Astray ? Resisting Authority: Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney ? Mother to be Grafted: Dermot Bolger’s A Second Life ? Revolutionizing Vulnerable Birds: Paula Meehan’s Mrs Sweeney ? Sweeney and Cailleach: Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill’s ‘Muirghil ag Caiseamh Shuibhne [Muirghil Castigates Sweeney]’.