Download or read book Sweeney Astray written by Seamus Heaney and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1984 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. 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.