HEANEY, Seamus.

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Sweeney Praises the Trees. First edition, number 54 of 110 copies, signed by the author on the half-title. Sweeney Praises the Trees is an early version of part of his modern English translation of the ancient Irish Buile Shuibhne, preceding his complete translation, published in 1983 as Sweeney Astray. The verses translated here are the section where Sweeney, having arrived at Gleann na n-Eachtach, makes his poem praising the trees of Ireland.

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