Sweeney’s Revival

Hiroko Ikeda is Professor in the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. She coedited Irish Literature in the British Context and Beyond: New Perspectives from Kyoto (2020), which includes her essay ‘Beyond being Irish or Celtic: The Double Vision of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s «Cailleach/Hag» in Feis’.

• 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 Ní Dhomhnaill’s ‘Muirghil ag Cáiseamh Shuibhne [Muirghil Castigates Sweeney]’.