Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 4 DECEMBER 2024

Important Irish Art | 4 December 2024 www.adams.ie 79 He describes how, in the image - which has gone around the world as part of the famous, Writers of Ire- land poster - Kavanagh actually resembles the featured sculpture. ‘Kavanagh’s pose is particularly satisfying because Cathedral is such an abstract piece’ Delaney writes. ‘Whatever about the public work, this really is modern, like a section of moon rock with a niche in its side or a gouged out tree trunk. Uncannily, the whole piece resembles the poet himself: solid, grounded and both traditional and modern, recognisable and abstract. He even shares the special quality of Eddie’s work: brute weight rendered tenderly.’