Articulations: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Shaping of Culture. Dublin: RIA, 2008. Limited Edition Issue. Fine copy in pictorial card French-fold flap wrappers.

This copy number Six of Fifty copies, Signed by Seamus Heaney & Patrick Masterson.

Published on the occasion of Seamus Heaney’s receipt of the  Royal Irish Academy Cunningham Medal on the 28th January 2008.

Contains Paul Muldoon’s “A Grand Tour” written for the occasion, “Citation for Dr. Seamus Heaney” by Jane Conroy, “Holding Patterns: Arts, Letters and the Academy,” Heaney’s fourteen-page acceptance speech and “Cultural Diversity and Human Solidarity” by Patrick Masterson.

The Cunningham Medal is the premier award of the Royal Irish Academy. It is awarded every three years in recognition of “outstanding contributions to scholarship and the objectives of the Academy”