Farmleigh's big bird

Madam, - Thanks for the splendid portrait of a wind-tossed Séamus Heaney giving a two-fingered benediction to Breony O'Casey'…

Madam, - Thanks for the splendid portrait of a wind-tossed Séamus Heaney giving a two-fingered benediction to Breony O'Casey's sculpture Éan Mór at Farmleigh House (The Irish Times, June 21st).

However, there have been many photographs of the Nobel laureate over the years, so I know how he looks. It would have been more interesting to have a picture of the "wonderfully wrought" sculpture in its entirety, and not just of that out-thrust limb. Does it look anything like its namesake in Sesame Street? - Yours, etc,

MICHAEL DRURY, Brussels, Belgium.