This limited, numbered book was produced to mark the awarding of the 2008 Cummingham Medal of the Royal Irish Academy to Dr. Seamus Heaney, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1995. Dr. Seamus received the premier Cunningham Medal in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the scholarship and the objectives of the Royal Irish Academy. "Articulations" contains Dr. Heaney's speech from the award presentation following his acceptance of the medal, which included a series of reflections on how the humanities inform consciousness and equip people as creatures of memory and reflection; how they supply a basis for the location and different orientation of the self in the world. The book also includes the Cunningham Medal citation by Jane Conroy, a poem by Paul Muldoon commissioned in honor of Dr. Heaney, and the text of a discourse by Patrick Masterson