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

Signed by Seamus  Heaney on the front free endpaper.

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.