(1941-11-23)23 November 1941 Belfast, Northern Ireland
Died
1 October 2020(2020-10-01) (aged 78) Cork, Ireland
Occupation
Poet Journalist
Genre
Poetry
Literary movement
Modernism
Norman Derek Mahon[1] (23 November 1941 – 1 October 2020) was an Irish poet.[2] He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland but lived in a number of cities around the world. At his death it was noted that his, "influence in the Irish poetry community, literary world and society at large, and his legacy, is immense".[3] President of Ireland Michael D Higgins said of Mahon; "he shared with his northern peers the capacity to link the classical and the contemporary but he brought also an edge that was unsparing of cruelty and wickedness."[4]
^"Mahon, (Norman) Derek". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^Foundation, Poetry (6 November 2022). "Derek Mahon". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
^"Belfast-born poet Derek Mahon dies aged 78". BBC News. 2 October 2020.
^Neville, Steve; Cleary, Mairéad (2 October 2020). "'Yet another artist gone from us in recent times': Poet Derek Mahon dies aged 78". Irish Examiner.
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Odyssey in humorous fashion. DerekMahon suggests Elpenor (but does not name him specifically) in his poem "Lives". Mahon talks of a decaying oar, planted...
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Riordan. Winner: DerekMahon, for Harbour Lights. Shortlist: John F. Deane, The Instruments of Art. Nick Laird, To a Fault. DerekMahon, Harbour Lights...
original into the other of his two languages; several writers, including DerekMahon, have attempted translations, but no complete version of the sequence...
Robert Harris, Nick Hornby, Richard Ingrams, Joseph O'Neill, Lynn Barber, DerekMahon, Oleg Gordievsky, John Sutherland and D. J. Taylor. Recently[when?] published...
Evans, 1988, prose and verse, as The God of Ecstasy (St. Martin's Press) DerekMahon, 1991 Nicholas Rudall, 1996 Richard Seaford, 1996: prose Frederic Raphael...
especially those from Northern Ireland, came to prominence including DerekMahon, Medbh McGuckian, John Montague, Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon. Influential...
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Devlin, Georg Trakl, Samuel Beckett, Thomas MacGreevy, Thomas Kinsella, DerekMahon, Austin Clarke and Pablo Neruda. Ní Chuilleanáin co-founded Cyphers,...
Brian Friel 1982 The Communication Cord Brian Friel 1984 High Time DerekMahon 1984 The Riot Act Tom Paulin 1986 Double Cross Thomas Kilroy 1987 Pentecost...
No. 835 in the 1906 catalogue. The work was the subject of a poem by DerekMahon. List of paintings by Pieter de Hooch "Pieter de Hooch | The Courtyard...
Shadows on Our Skin Jennifer Johnston & DerekMahon Kenith Trodd Jim O'Brien MacRea Clarke Screenplay by DerekMahon from the novel by Jennifer Johnston....
own translation in 1967 in the journal Audit. The Northern Irish poet DerekMahon has made a free interpretation and adaptation of the poems, published...
in the area, which also contains a woodland nature reserve. The poet DerekMahon mentions Carnmoney Cemetery in his poem "My Wicked Uncle". Carnmoney...
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Magazine such as Eavan Boland, Brendan Kennelly, Michael Longley and DerekMahon who were all TCD graduates and went on to become highly regarded figures...
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