Sweeney’s Flight. Based on the Revised Text of ‘Sweeney Astray’. Photographs by Rachel Gies. London: Faber, 1992. First Edition. Pp, 117. Small folio. Green cloth boards title lettered in gilt to spine, in pictorial dust jacket. A nice clean copy.

Inspired by Heaney’s poems and notably his version of the Irish saga ‘Buile Suibhne,’ American photographer Rachel Giese has produces a stunning portfolio of pictures of the Northern Irish landscape, covering the boundaries of Mad Sweeney’s original kingdom of Dal-Arie.