A Tribute to Kevin Sullivan. By Thomas Flanagan, Seamus Heaney, Benedict Kiely, Sean White and June K. Davison. Edited by June K. Davison. New York: Privately Published, [1991]. Publisher’s stapled grey wrappers, titles to front wrapper within frame in black. A fine bright copy.

Limited Edition of Twenty-Five Numbered Copies, Signed by all five contributors (Seamus Heaney, Thomas Flanagan, Benedict Kiely, Sean White, and June K. Davison).

The tribute reproduces the speeches given at the memorial reading for Sullivan at Queen’s College, New York, on 2 May 1988.

Heaney became friends with Sullivan, a Jesuit literary scholar best known for his magnum opus Joyce Among the Jesuits (1958), in the early 1970s through their mutual friendship with fellow Irish authors Thomas Flanagan and Benedict Kiely.

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