This study aims to uncover the traces of the Sweeney legend (Buile Suibhne) in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish writers. Liminality serves as the key to uniting them. Close textual readings illuminate the profound significance of Sweeney’s Revival, resonating across Irish history, society, and the world at large.
Hiroko Ikeda is Professor in the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. She coedited Irish Literature in the British Context and Beyond: New Perspectives from Kyoto (2020), which includes her essay ‘Beyond being Irish or Celtic: The Double Vision of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s «Cailleach/Hag» in Feis’.