Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish is a version of the Irish poem Buile Shuibhne written by Seamus Heaney, based on an earlier edition and translation by J. G.

O'Keeffe.

[2][3][4] The work was first published in 1983 and won the 1985 PEN Translation Prize for poetry.

[5] Photographer Rachel Giese and Heaney later collaborated to juxtapose selected passages of Heaney's translation with Giese's photographs of sites mentioned in the text, a work published as Sweeney's Flight.

[6][7] Selections from Sweeney Astray appear in: