Sweeney’s Revival: Translating and transcending the liminal (Reimagining Ireland, 132)

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Liminality and the Sweeney Legend in Irish Literature
	Sweeney, an anti-hero from ancient Ireland
	Alternative to Cuchulain
	Departure from a national bard
Chapter 1
Sweeney, W. B. Yeats, and James Joyce
	Shadowy Sweeney in W. B. Yeats’s ‘The Madness of King Goll’
	Trees to love or marry: ‘Cyclops’ in James Joyce’s Ulysses
Chapter 2
Double Visions: Austin Clarke’s ‘The Frenzy of Suibhne’
	The potential of the divided mind
	The liberation of Gaelic voice
Chapter 3
‘The black earth my earth-bed’: Derek Mahon’s The Snow Party
	From a ‘bed of roses’ to an ‘earth-bed’
	The threshold of death
	The earth as a threshold
Chapter 4
‘A soul journey’: Tom Mac Intyre’s ‘Sweeney among the Branches’
	From loss to a new birth
	Dialogues with the unconscious
Chapter 5
Reviving and Revived: Seamus Heaney’s Sweeney Astray
	A denial of ‘a dead kingdom’?
	Forgetting and remembering
	Metamorphosis of Sweeney’s soul
Chapter 6
Resisting Authority: Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney
	Authority to resist from within
	A rebel in conflict
	From a fifth province to a borderline country
Chapter 7
Mother to be Grafted: Dermot Bolger’s A Second Life
	Sweeney’s ‘second life’
	Mother and tongue
	Grafting the lost past
Chapter 8
Revolutionizing Vulnerable Birds: Paula Meehan’s Mrs Sweeney
	Sweeney divided
	An unnamed oppressor
	Refusal to be a victim
Chapter 9
Sweeney and Cailleach: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s ‘Muirghil ag Cáiseamh Shuibhne [Muirghil Castigates Sweeney]’
	A call to milk
	Cruel goddess
	A caricature of heroic death
	Regeneration in the otherworld