Buile Shuibhne: Difference between revisions

Suibhne's name appears as early as the ninth century in a law tract (''Book of Aicill''), but ''Buile Shuibhne'' did not take its current form until the twelfth century.<ref name="sailor">{{cite journal|ref=harv|last=Sailor |first=Susan Shaw |title=Suibne Geilt: Puzzles, Problems, and Paradoxes|journal=The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies |volume=24 |pages=115–131 | number =1 |year=1998 | doi = 10.2307/25515239 |jstor=25515239 }}</ref> {{harvnb|Ó Béarra|}} includes a detailed analysis of the language and date of the text. He contends that the text in its final form is not as old as generally presumed but should be dated to the early thirteenth century.

Many poets have invoked Sweeney – most notably [[T. S. Eliot]] and [[Seamus Heaney]]. Heaney published a translation of the work into English, which he entitled ''[[Sweeney Astray]]''. Eliot made Sweeney the central figure in his verse drama ''[[Sweeney Agonistes]]''. The author [[Flann O'Brien]] incorporated much of the story of ''Buile Shuibhne'' into his [[comic novel]] ''[[At Swim-Two-Birds]]'', whose title is the English translation of the place name "Snamh da en" in the tale.{{sfnp|Mackillop|1998|loc="Buile Shuibhne", p. 63–4}} Another version from the Irish text, titled ''[[The Poems of Sweeny, Peregrine]]'', was published by the Irish poet [[Trevor Joyce]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.soundeye.org/trevorjoyce|title=The Poems of Sweeny, Peregrine|author=Trevor Joyce|accessdateaccess-date=17 November 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090602185632/http://soundeye.org/trevorjoyce/|archivedatearchive-date=2 June 2009}}</ref>

Sweeney also appears as a character in [[Neil Gaiman]]'s novel ''[[American Gods]]'' and is portrayed by [[Pablo Schreiber]] in its [[American Gods (TV series)|TV adaptation]].<ref name="Schreiber">{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2016/05/pablo-schreiber-cast-mad-sweeney-american-gods-starz-thumper-1201752004/|title=Pablo Schreiber To Play Mad Sweeney In 'American Gods' Starz Series, Joins Indie 'Thumper'|work=Deadline|first=Nellie|last=Andreeva|date=May 11, 2016|accessdateaccess-date=May 12, 2016}}</ref> In TV adaptation, it is revealed that Sweeney was actually [[Lugh]].

*{{citation|last=O'Keeffe |first=James G. |title=Buile Shuibhne (The Frenzy of Suibhne). Being the Adventures of Suibhne Geilt. A Middle-Irish Romance |place=London |publisher=D. Nutt|year=1913 |series=Irish Texts Society |volume=XII |url=https://archive.org/stream/builesuibhnethef12okee#page/n7/mode/2up|pages=198pp|noppno-pp=yes|via=Internet Archive}}

*{{citation|last=O'Keeffe |first=James G. |title=Buile Shuibhne |place=Dublin|publisher=Stationery Office|year=1931|series=Medieval and Modern Irish Series |volume=I |url=http://digital.nls.uk/early-gaelic-book-collections/pageturner.cfm?id=76545982|pages=110pp|noppno-pp=yes}}

*{{citation|last=Ó Sé |first=Seán |title=Buile Shuibhne (modern Irish version) |place=Dublin|publisher=Coiscéim |year=2010 |url= | language = Irishga|pages=109pp|noppno-pp=yes}}

*{{cite encyclopedia|ref=harv|last=Frykenberg |first=Brian |title=Wild Man in Celtic Legend |editor-last=Koch |editor-first=John T. |editor-link=John T. Koch |encyclopedia=Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia |volume=1 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2006 |pages=1796–99 |url= }}

*{{cite encyclopedia|ref=harv|last=Mackillop |first=James|article=Buile Shuibhne |encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology |year=1998|isbn=9780198691570|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SUPXAAAAMAAJ}}