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[[W. D. Snodgrass]] introduces his poem ''Heart's Needle''<ref>[http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15302 Heart's Needle] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060919122651/http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15302 |date=2006-09-19 }}</ref> with a reference to ''The Madness of Suibhne''.
Irish poet and playwright [[Paula Meehan]] loosely based her 1997 drama ''Mrs. Sweeney'' on the Sweeney legend. Set in an inner-city Dublin flat complex called The Maria Goretti Mansions (a metaphor for the notorious Fatima Mansions Flats in Dublin), the play examines what life must have been like for Sweeney's wife; as Meehan states, "I wondered what it must have been like to be his woman."<ref>Meehan, Paula, Author's Note for 'Mrs Sweeny', in "Rough Magic: First Plays" (Dublin: New Island Books, 1998), p. 463.</ref> The play charts the trials and tribulations of Lil Sweeney's life in the Maria Goretti flats as she deals with crime, poverty, unemployment, drug abuse, and tries to come to terms with the premature death of her daughter Chrisse, a heroin addict who died a year before the action starts from an AIDS related illness. Lil's husband, Sweeney, is a pigeon fancier who, upon discovering that all his pigeons have been killed, retreats into a bird-like state.
Irish composer [[Frank Corcoran]] wrote a series of works between 1996 and 2003 around the tale. This includes the choral work ''Buile Suibhne / Mad Sweeney'' (1996, after Heaney), the electro-acoustic composition ''Sweeney's Vision'' (1997), and the chamber work ''Sweeney's Smithereens'' (2000).
French writer Pierre Michon retells the story of Suibhne's levity in his 1997 collection Mythologies d'hiver.
In the 1999 [[young adult literature|young adult]] [[fantasy fiction|fantasy]] novel ''[[The Stones Are Hatching]]'' by [[Geraldine McCaughrean]], Mad Sweeney is portrayed as having been traumatised by his experience fighting in the [[Napoleonic Wars]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-028766-5|work=[[Publishers Weekly]]|title=The Stones Are Hatching by Geraldine McCaughrean|date=May 2000|access-date=24 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/geraldine-mccaughrean/the-stones-are-hatching|work=[[Kirkus Reviews]]|title=The Stones Are Hatching|date=15 May 2000|access-date=24 January 2021}}</ref>
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