Sometimes into a working-class family, a little prince is born. Derek Mahon was the only son of a fitter in a Belfast shipyard, but he was from the start “a strange child with a taste for verse ...
Derek Mahon has died in Kinsale, County Cork, following a short illness The Belfast-born poet Derek Mahon has died aged 78 after a short illness. A writer of international renown, Mahon was born ...