Talk:Clan Sweeney

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The Sweeney tartan can be either the Sweeney tartan which originated in Scotland for the MacQueen /MacSween clan or the tartan from the region in which Sweeney was first found in Ireland, which is Donegal. It is the custom in Ireland to wear the tartan of your region (the original region in which your clan came from) and so a Sweeney in Ireland would wear a Donegal tartan. This information was provided to me from the Scottish and Irish store http://www.scottishandirishstore.com/index.htm and I have verified at several other sources. In the end, it’s a matter of choice as a Sweeney, whether you want to wear the Scottish or Irish tartan, either is correct.

198.103.53.5 16:27, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] King of Ulster

The third part of Séamus Heaney's Station Island (Faber and Faber, 1984) is entitled "Sweeney Redivivus" in which the poet's voice is at one with the voice of the legendary Sweeney, A King of Ulster whose story Mr Heaney has translated from the Irish. Millbanks (talk) 09:36, 24 April 2008 (UTC)