Derek Mahon

Irish poet.
Died on Friday October 2nd 2020


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@OmegaSirius: RT @TheVolatility: Forse non andra' bene - 4 years ago

@hilsjmcl: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@dcarroll100: RT @DeptAHG: “Everything is going to be all right” #Ireland’s national broadcaster @rte finishes this evening’s news bulletin @rtenews on… - 4 years ago

@williamcrawley: RT @adair_mark: ‘Common in hedges, woods and walls, it flowers in autumn when supplies of nectar dwindle... When history bows to circumstan… - 4 years ago

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@billtinley: @junecaldwell Four breaks cancelled so far. At least a lighthouse in Antrim has a ring of Derek Mahon to it. - 4 years ago

@jmills1955: RT @SeamusHeaneyNLI: "The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight wa… - 4 years ago

@hamsalba7r: RT @dreamingbulb: * The poems flow from the hand unbidden / and the secret source is a watchful heart. —Derek Mahon . 🖌 Stephen Scott Y… - 4 years ago

@Traceculture: RT @Aosdana: Tune in for the new series of @PoetryProgRTE @RTERadio1 this evening Sunday 11 Oct at 7:30pm w/ poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanái… - 4 years ago

@poetryjukebox: RT @Aosdana: Tune in for the new series of @PoetryProgRTE @RTERadio1 this evening Sunday 11 Oct at 7:30pm w/ poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanái… - 4 years ago

@EireannAscenda: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@J0hnB0yC: @neilsonandrew For Derek Mahon, you might like : a small tribute : - 4 years ago

@PoetryProgRTE: RT @Aosdana: Tune in for the new series of @PoetryProgRTE @RTERadio1 this evening Sunday 11 Oct at 7:30pm w/ poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanái… - 4 years ago

@PoetryProgRTE: RT @ACNIWriting: On @PoetryProgRTE 7.30pm, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reads her own & her late husband Macdara Woods's poems. Also @grace_wilen… - 4 years ago

@PoetryProgRTE: RT @grace_wilentz: Friends, I’ll be on the @PoetryProgRTE on RTÉ radio 1 reading from my new book ‘The Limit of Light’ at 7.30 pm Irish tim… - 4 years ago

@magscahill1: RT @neilsonandrew: “The quick noose of their finite being”—Derek Mahon being brilliant. - 4 years ago

@nemoloris: Reading WS Graham I am reminded that Derek Mahon’s original first name was Norman. - 4 years ago

@neilsonandrew: “The quick noose of their finite being”—Derek Mahon being brilliant. - 4 years ago

@twilark: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Preview of tomorrow's @PoetryProgRTE Sun 7:30pm @RTERadio1 with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reading her own & her late husban… - 4 years ago

@TheGalleryPress: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Preview of tomorrow's @PoetryProgRTE Sun 7:30pm @RTERadio1 with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reading her own & her late husban… - 4 years ago

@duxfightdemon: RT @TheVolatility: Forse non andra' bene - 4 years ago

@READEnglish: Derek Mahon Tribute Evening (Poetry readings and discussion, 14th October) - 4 years ago

@Michael_INI_CAN: It’s okay to not feel okay - be kind out there pals, 2020 has been hard, stop, listen and let’s look out for each o… - 4 years ago

@norflandan: For the days are long From the first milk van To the last shout in the night, An eternity. But the weeks go by L… - 4 years ago

@nonewsulysses: RT @guardian: Derek Mahon, Belfast-born giant of Irish poetry, dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@sandoly: RT @loquacious334: "At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime" Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@loyndsview: "His most celebrated poem, A Disused Shed in Co Wexford, was described by John Banville as 'the best single poem wr… - 4 years ago

@ForsterImogen: RT @nemoloris: Sean O'Brien's Guardian obituary for Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@CirculolecRoma: RT @loquacious334: "At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime" Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@TheObjective_es: «De los últimos tiempos Paul Muldoon y Derek Mahon –que murió hace una semana– destacan entre los poetas anglosajon… - 4 years ago

@rutiteitel: RT @dubreviewbooks: Derek Mahon obituary: One of the great poets of his generation - 4 years ago

@Macha_NI: RT @dubreviewbooks: Derek Mahon obituary: One of the great poets of his generation - 4 years ago

@UCDIrishStudies: RT @NLIreland: "I am just going outside and may be some time" At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime. Extract from the #poem 'Antarc… - 4 years ago

@UCDIrishStudies: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Preview of this Sunday's @PoetryProgRTE 7:30pm @RTERadio1 with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reading her own & her late husband… - 4 years ago

@AnthonyAdler: RT @nemoloris: Discarded Derek Mahon concrete poem. - 4 years ago

@pandit_jr: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@lukas_corso: RT @loquacious334: "At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime" Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@SallyThomasNC: RT @ae_stallings: Charmed to find a poem about Carolina (North) in Derek Mahon's Selected, "The Globe in Carolina," which ends, appropriate… - 4 years ago

@gyoung9751: ‘Witty, perceptive, provocative’: President leads tributes to poet Derek Mahon - Martin Doyle at @IrishTimes - 4 years ago

@PeterVertacnik: RT @ae_stallings: Charmed to find a poem about Carolina (North) in Derek Mahon's Selected, "The Globe in Carolina," which ends, appropriate… - 4 years ago

@derek_alcorn: RT @dubreviewbooks: Derek Mahon obituary: One of the great poets of his generation - 4 years ago

@poetryireland: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Preview of this Sunday's @PoetryProgRTE 7:30pm @RTERadio1 with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reading her own & her late husband… - 4 years ago

@TheGalleryPress: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Preview of this Sunday's @PoetryProgRTE 7:30pm @RTERadio1 with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reading her own & her late husband… - 4 years ago

@molina_elorza: RT @GuardianBooks: Derek Mahon obituary | Sean O’Brien - 4 years ago

@sowfflll: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@VKennefick: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Preview of this Sunday's @PoetryProgRTE 7:30pm @RTERadio1 with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reading her own & her late husband… - 4 years ago

@MunLitCentre: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Preview of this Sunday's @PoetryProgRTE 7:30pm @RTERadio1 with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reading her own & her late husband… - 4 years ago

@debbiedeegan1: RT @EmilyH71: Feeling a bit Boastie McBoast-face saying this - but I'm on @RTEToday show today at 4.40pm, talking to @daithi_ose and @Maura… - 4 years ago

@Gill_Books: Also out today is ‘One For Everyone: More Poems I Love’ compiled by Kathleen Watkins. This beautiful collection fea… - 4 years ago

@Mistymaria55: RT @coaimpaul: A beautiful poem from Irish poet Derek Mahon who died earlier today: The sun rises in spite of everything and the far citie… - 4 years ago

@cathy746books: Derek Mahon, 1941 – 2020 - 4 years ago

@gregsweetnam: RT @griffinpoetry: Our Poem of the Week is another look at Homage to Gaia / At Ursula’s by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@JohanneBAKER6: RT @guardianobits: Derek Mahon obituary. One of the great poets of his native Ireland who combined an apocalyptic vision with a utopian sen… - 4 years ago

@clairerockfinch: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Preview of this Sunday's @PoetryProgRTE 7:30pm @RTERadio1 with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reading her own & her late husband… - 4 years ago

@Wellfey: I lie here in a riot of sunlight watching the day break and the clouds flying. Everything is going to be all right. — Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@PRPlunkett: RT @EmilyH71: Feeling a bit Boastie McBoast-face saying this - but I'm on @RTEToday show today at 4.40pm, talking to @daithi_ose and @Maura… - 4 years ago

@ByLeavesWeLive: RT @GuardianBooks: Derek Mahon obituary | Sean O’Brien - 4 years ago

@guardianobits: Derek Mahon obituary. One of the great poets of his native Ireland who combined an apocalyptic vision with a utopia… - 4 years ago

@ByLeavesWeLive: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Preview of this Sunday's @PoetryProgRTE 7:30pm @RTERadio1 with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reading her own & her late husband… - 4 years ago

@HachetteIre: RT @EmilyH71: Feeling a bit Boastie McBoast-face saying this - but I'm on @RTEToday show today at 4.40pm, talking to @daithi_ose and @Maura… - 4 years ago

@PoetryProgRTE: Preview of this Sunday's @PoetryProgRTE 7:30pm @RTERadio1 with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin reading her own & her late hu… - 4 years ago

@karentoittoit: RIP Derek Mahon! “Everything is going to be Allright” - 4 years ago

@MarieBryne: RT @EmilyH71: Feeling a bit Boastie McBoast-face saying this - but I'm on @RTEToday show today at 4.40pm, talking to @daithi_ose and @Maura… - 4 years ago

@viemagique: RT @GuardianBooks: Derek Mahon obituary | Sean O’Brien - 4 years ago

@AmandaJayM: RT @GuardianBooks: Derek Mahon obituary | Sean O’Brien - 4 years ago

@CWCAssoc: RT @GuardianBooks: Derek Mahon obituary | Sean O’Brien - 4 years ago

@BrokenBarnet: RT @GuardianBooks: Derek Mahon obituary | Sean O’Brien - 4 years ago

@Gibbothegreat: RT @GuardianBooks: Derek Mahon obituary | Sean O’Brien - 4 years ago

@swirlandthread: RT @EmilyH71: Feeling a bit Boastie McBoast-face saying this - but I'm on @RTEToday show today at 4.40pm, talking to @daithi_ose and @Maura… - 4 years ago

@CSPilsbury: RT @GuardianBooks: Derek Mahon obituary | Sean O’Brien - 4 years ago

@Gastone_derolla: RT @GuardianBooks: Derek Mahon obituary | Sean O’Brien - 4 years ago

@GuardianBooks: Derek Mahon obituary | Sean O’Brien - 4 years ago

@ThePicEditors: RT @EmilyH71: Feeling a bit Boastie McBoast-face saying this - but I'm on @RTEToday show today at 4.40pm, talking to @daithi_ose and @Maura… - 4 years ago

@M5Buff5: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@SheriseHobbs: RT @EmilyH71: Feeling a bit Boastie McBoast-face saying this - but I'm on @RTEToday show today at 4.40pm, talking to @daithi_ose and @Maura… - 4 years ago

@jd_Kells: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@DominiKemp: RT @EmilyH71: Feeling a bit Boastie McBoast-face saying this - but I'm on @RTEToday show today at 4.40pm, talking to @daithi_ose and @Maura… - 4 years ago

@EmilyH71: Feeling a bit Boastie McBoast-face saying this - but I'm on @RTEToday show today at 4.40pm, talking to @daithi_ose… - 4 years ago

@CroninLetty: RT @CroninLetty: @Letit1a Sorry about the typo You’d think I’d have at least spelt his name correctly Derek Mahon thank you and Rest In Pea… - 4 years ago

@CroninLetty: @Letit1a Sorry about the typo You’d think I’d have at least spelt his name correctly Derek Mahon thank you and Rest In Peace x - 4 years ago

@TheGalleryPress: RT @Peterocmedia: Sunday Miscellany: Derek Mahon: A Tribute by Gerald Dawe - 4 years ago

@gillian_horgan: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@cathsaye: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@RavenRavenmaven: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@AlexClarkes: RT @yogamanjunaga: Poem for the week 'Everything Is Going To Be All Right' by the late Irish poet, Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@booksirelandmag: RT @Peterocmedia: Sunday Miscellany: Derek Mahon: A Tribute by Gerald Dawe - 4 years ago

@yogamanjunaga: Poem for the week 'Everything Is Going To Be All Right' by the late Irish poet, Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@Patniniadh: @johncusack ❤Derek Mahon RIP - 4 years ago

@sunrisebeth72: @johncusack Sadly Derek Mahon died recently - 4 years ago

@CCAKilcoole: CCA Philosophical Friday: As we face into uncharted waters we are reminded of De… - 4 years ago

@julzsg59: RT @Loverdesart: You come back once more to this dazzling shore its warm uterine rinse heart-racing heave & groan A quick gasp as you sli… - 4 years ago

@CelebrityPool: RT @NYTObits: Derek Mahon, Popular Irish Poet, Is Dead at 78 - 4 years ago

@NYTObits: Derek Mahon, Popular Irish Poet, Is Dead at 78 - 4 years ago

@richard51185877: Derek Mahon, Belfast-born giant of Irish poetry, dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@alangriffith8: RT @CormacKinsella: Derek Mahon obituary: One of the great poets of his generation - 4 years ago

@stoneandthestar: RT @griffinpoetry: Our Poem of the Week is another look at Homage to Gaia / At Ursula’s by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@griffinpoetry: Our Poem of the Week is another look at Homage to Gaia / At Ursula’s by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@philosophylinks: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@Darcierose333: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@DanicaVivien: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@awise66: RT @IrishLitTimes: Poet and ‘intellect’ Derek Mahon laid to rest in Cork - 4 years ago

@DeirdreBeecher: RT @IrishLitTimes: Poet and ‘intellect’ Derek Mahon laid to rest in Cork - 4 years ago

@derek_alcorn: RT @ReadingIreland: Poet and ‘intellect’ Derek Mahon laid to rest in Cork - 4 years ago

@IrishLitTimes: Poet and ‘intellect’ Derek Mahon laid to rest in Cork - 4 years ago

@WhatsOnWestCork: RT @ReadingIreland: Poet and ‘intellect’ Derek Mahon laid to rest in Cork - 4 years ago

@TheGalleryPress: RT @ReadingIreland: Poet and ‘intellect’ Derek Mahon laid to rest in Cork - 4 years ago

@ronandlibrarian: RT @rtenews: At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Derek Mahon's poem 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' struck a chord with… - 4 years ago

@GillBarr4: RT @PoetryBookSoc: We're deeply saddened to hear reports that Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died aged 78. His poem 'Ever… - 4 years ago

@fudgestripes: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@AK9dj: RT @ladyhaja: andrew scott doing his lockdown bit by reading derek mahon’s everything is going to be all right (this makes me weep for th… - 4 years ago

@SaminaChaudhr12: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@corourke91: "Mahon may be seen as a self-consciously Irish poet, in that his dissections of capitalism & its ethic of relentles… - 4 years ago

@BillyLinehan: RT @ladyhaja: andrew scott doing his lockdown bit by reading derek mahon’s everything is going to be all right (this makes me weep for th… - 4 years ago

@EibhlinCurley: RT @ladyhaja: andrew scott doing his lockdown bit by reading derek mahon’s everything is going to be all right (this makes me weep for th… - 4 years ago

@iomhair_nic: @Malc______ Ah yeah, poor Derek Mahon 😞 two poets this week, both of whom I have translations of if you want a peek… - 4 years ago

@ReadingIreland: Poet and ‘intellect’ Derek Mahon laid to rest in Cork - 4 years ago

@stoneandthestar: Also, even though I feel very sad about both of them, I'm kind of pleased with myself for mentioning Derek Mahon &… - 4 years ago

@IainMMcAllister: RT @DanMulhall: A reading of a favourite poem, ‘Kinsale’ by Derek Mahon, a major Irish poet who died yesterday. - 4 years ago

@stoneandthestar: Between Derek Mahon dying, Eddie Van Halen dying, my poetry publisher being very ill & Louise Glück winning the Nob… - 4 years ago

@Malc______: @iomhair_nic Also what poetry? My dad keeps talking about Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@Belzeb_U: Profeta. - 4 years ago

@johnnygoodeb: @19acres Brahms (after Derek Mahon) The Clarinet Quintet in B Minor Opus 115, the second movement. Turn it up s… - 4 years ago

@simranpanjabii: RT @neilsonandrew: Just gutted all day about Derek Mahon, whose singing line was as formative as it gets for me. At least I able to tell hi… - 4 years ago

@germoane: RT @somulligan: A beautiful funeral service was held today for #MargaretMcCurtain RIP aka #SrBen finishing with this poem by Derek Mahon ht… - 4 years ago

@maighreadkenne5: RT @rtenews: At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Derek Mahon's poem 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' struck a chord with… - 4 years ago

@benglovermusic: RT @rtenews: At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Derek Mahon's poem 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' struck a chord with… - 4 years ago

@somulligan: A beautiful funeral service was held today for #MargaretMcCurtain RIP aka #SrBen finishing with this poem by Derek… - 4 years ago

@JSRichman: "Down the long library each marble bust shines unregarded through a shower of dust where a grim ghost paces for exe… - 4 years ago

@Nu63741412: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@binii___: RT @Tweet_Dec: I am now with child and the father is this video of Andrew Scott reading Derek Mahon’s poem Everything Is Going To Be Alrigh… - 4 years ago

@philosophylinks: RT @williamcrawley: ‘Witty, perceptive, provocative’: President leads tributes to poet Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@Miller_Joan: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@ShON25486781: RT @NYTObits: Derek Mahon, Popular Irish Poet, Is Dead at 78 - 4 years ago

@annmariegarvey2: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Coming up in the 1st @PoetryProgRTE of a new series Sun 11 Oct 7:30pm @RTERadio1 poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & her l… - 4 years ago

@Yellifers: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@TCamross: 'Everything Is Going To Be All Right' - Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@ckarkkent: Poet and ‘intellect’ Derek Mahon laid to rest in Cork via @IrishTimes - 4 years ago

@elporterauthor: RT @Channel_LitMag: Accept what happens. Whether the gods allow us fifty winters more or drop us at this one now which flings the high Tyrr… - 4 years ago

@Tracey_woodward: Legend RIP Derek Mahon 🤍 - 4 years ago

@aine_lucy: Just read the news that my beloved poet passed away on 2nd October. Rest in peace, Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@ChimeoArts: Poem Of The Week: 'Everything Is Going To Be All Right' By Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@TheLancsTimes: Poem Of The Week: 'Everything Is Going To Be All Right' By Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@TheYorksTimes: Poem Of The Week: 'Everything Is Going To Be All Right' By Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@PoetryByEdward: Derek Mahon obituary: One of the great poets of his generation - The Irish Times - 4 years ago

@McGurkEamonn: I think we've all felt a bit like this at various times over the past 6 months or so. Let's hope in the words of th… - 4 years ago

@evewrites: RT @GylesB1: The great Irish poet Derek Mahon has died. He was a wonderful writer with a great heart and a unique voice. Here is the poem o… - 4 years ago

@jami0mckay: RT @GylesB1: The great Irish poet Derek Mahon has died. He was a wonderful writer with a great heart and a unique voice. Here is the poem o… - 4 years ago

@xhaworthx: RT @GylesB1: The great Irish poet Derek Mahon has died. He was a wonderful writer with a great heart and a unique voice. Here is the poem o… - 4 years ago

@CathalLynch: RT @LeoraCruddas: I shared Derek Mahon's beautiful poem 'Everything is going to be alright' with @CSTvoice members this morning. I heard @c… - 4 years ago

@LeoraCruddas: RT @LeoraCruddas: I shared Derek Mahon's beautiful poem 'Everything is going to be alright' with @CSTvoice members this morning. I heard @c… - 4 years ago

@katies2511: RT @Tweet_Dec: I am now with child and the father is this video of Andrew Scott reading Derek Mahon’s poem Everything Is Going To Be Alrigh… - 4 years ago

@Lit_Ireland: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Coming up in the 1st @PoetryProgRTE of a new series Sun 11 Oct 7:30pm @RTERadio1 poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & her l… - 4 years ago

@alivmwarner: @BeebsyMcA God this is beautiful RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@MartinaCollend1: RT @ACNIWriting: I'm not sure you could better this coming through your door on the day Derek Mahon died, and so close to Ciaran Carson's f… - 4 years ago

@Lit_Ireland: RT @ACNIWriting: I'm not sure you could better this coming through your door on the day Derek Mahon died, and so close to Ciaran Carson's f… - 4 years ago

@marielouisemuir: RT @adair_mark: ‘We spoke Belfast together. It’s not so much a language, but rather a vernacular understanding...’ Gerry Dawe in his eloqu… - 4 years ago

@ellenmcateer: RT @Poetry_London: We were deeply saddened to learn of Derek Mahon's death last week. Our Reviews Editor Dai George has written a few words… - 4 years ago

@cerysmatthews: RT @LeoraCruddas: I shared Derek Mahon's beautiful poem 'Everything is going to be alright' with @CSTvoice members this morning. I heard @c… - 4 years ago

@Inkquill: RT @adair_mark: ‘We spoke Belfast together. It’s not so much a language, but rather a vernacular understanding...’ Gerry Dawe in his eloqu… - 4 years ago

@rose_lingering: RT @griffinpoetry: “Derek Mahon was one of the great poets in English, one of the few whose technical brilliance was somehow adequate to th… - 4 years ago

@s_mweavingwords: RT @IrishTimes: Tributes paid to ‘major intellect’ as poet Derek Mahon laid to rest - 4 years ago

@griffinpoetry: “Derek Mahon was one of the great poets in English, one of the few whose technical brilliance was somehow adequate… - 4 years ago

@IrishTimes: Tributes paid to ‘major intellect’ as poet Derek Mahon laid to rest - 4 years ago

@padraigmob: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@gyepesl: RT @TheGRLI: Closing poem read at our 2020 AGM by @sheilakillian 🙏 COME IN The steel regrets the lock, a word will open the rock, the woo… - 4 years ago

@TomMaguire1965: RT @adair_mark: ‘We spoke Belfast together. It’s not so much a language, but rather a vernacular understanding...’ Gerry Dawe in his eloqu… - 4 years ago

@smeeho7: RT @adair_mark: ‘We spoke Belfast together. It’s not so much a language, but rather a vernacular understanding...’ Gerry Dawe in his eloqu… - 4 years ago

@roisinmcauley: RT @adair_mark: ‘We spoke Belfast together. It’s not so much a language, but rather a vernacular understanding...’ Gerry Dawe in his eloqu… - 4 years ago

@adair_mark: ‘We spoke Belfast together. It’s not so much a language, but rather a vernacular understanding...’ Gerry Dawe in h… - 4 years ago

@slipperypawords: RT @nemoloris: ‘In 1960, Mahon went to Trinity College, Dublin, as an exhibitioner, and appears to have done no work (the College’s website… - 4 years ago

@TriformisMundus: RT @IrishTimesLife: Derek Mahon obituary: One of the great poets of his generation - 4 years ago

@dmzhukova: RT @IrishTimesLife: Derek Mahon obituary: One of the great poets of his generation - 4 years ago

@theskibeagle: RT @IrishTimesLife: Derek Mahon obituary: One of the great poets of his generation - 4 years ago

@IrishTimes: RT @IrishTimesLife: Derek Mahon obituary: One of the great poets of his generation - 4 years ago

@IrishTimesLife: Derek Mahon obituary: One of the great poets of his generation - 4 years ago

@MichaelJWhelan1: RT @ACNIWriting: I'm not sure you could better this coming through your door on the day Derek Mahon died, and so close to Ciaran Carson's f… - 4 years ago

@Rogerson_john: Derek Mahon from ⁦@LondonTimes 2/2 - 4 years ago

@Rogerson_john: Derek Mahon from ⁦@LondonTimes⁩ 1/2 - 4 years ago

@dedalusdenaries: RT @Poetry_London: We were deeply saddened to learn of Derek Mahon's death last week. Our Reviews Editor Dai George has written a few words… - 4 years ago

@TheGalleryPress: RT @Poetry_London: We were deeply saddened to learn of Derek Mahon's death last week. Our Reviews Editor Dai George has written a few words… - 4 years ago

@CRFIrvine: Week 4 was 'Everything is going to be alright' by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@tarryathome: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Coming up in the 1st @PoetryProgRTE of a new series Sun 11 Oct 7:30pm @RTERadio1 poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & her l… - 4 years ago

@stoneandthestar: RT @Poetry_London: We were deeply saddened to learn of Derek Mahon's death last week. Our Reviews Editor Dai George has written a few words… - 4 years ago

@Silk73507704: RT @PoetrySociety: I have been working for years on a four-line poem about the life of a leaf; I think it might come out right this winter.… - 4 years ago

@noel_satchell: RT @johnthejack: Derek Mahon 23 November 1941 – 1 October 2020 #RIP #MEcfs - 4 years ago

@dixxyD: I’ve been thinking about #Autumn & #ageingwell & choices made. I’ve also been revisiting the #poetry of Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@Carolynxmorris: RT @HeaneyCentre: A tribute to Derek Mahon by our friend, and Advisory Board member Gerry Dawe. @PoetryProgRTE @tcddublin @RTERadioPlayer… - 4 years ago

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@kateduv1: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Coming up in the 1st @PoetryProgRTE of a new series Sun 11 Oct 7:30pm @RTERadio1 poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & her l… - 4 years ago

@jillmcflinn: RT @Channel_LitMag: Accept what happens. Whether the gods allow us fifty winters more or drop us at this one now which flings the high Tyrr… - 4 years ago

@paulmcdonagh64: RT @patrickxwest: obituary of Derek Mahon from The Times today - 4 years ago

@FoyleOrfhlaith: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Coming up in the 1st @PoetryProgRTE of a new series Sun 11 Oct 7:30pm @RTERadio1 poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & her l… - 4 years ago

@DublinCityofLit: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Coming up in the 1st @PoetryProgRTE of a new series Sun 11 Oct 7:30pm @RTERadio1 poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & her l… - 4 years ago

@helen_is_here: RT @Channel_LitMag: Accept what happens. Whether the gods allow us fifty winters more or drop us at this one now which flings the high Tyrr… - 4 years ago

@ashmack01: RT @Tweet_Dec: I am now with child and the father is this video of Andrew Scott reading Derek Mahon’s poem Everything Is Going To Be Alrigh… - 4 years ago

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@RosamundTaylor: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Coming up in the 1st @PoetryProgRTE of a new series Sun 11 Oct 7:30pm @RTERadio1 poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & her l… - 4 years ago

@ManAndVan4Hire: RT @TimesObits: There are public poets and there are private poets. Derek Mahon, a leading light of that exceptional group from Northern Ir… - 4 years ago

@GracieNiG: RT @patrickxwest: obituary of Derek Mahon from The Times today - 4 years ago

@FWritersS: RT @rtenews: At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Derek Mahon's poem 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' struck a chord with… - 4 years ago

@karamnama2: ديريك ماهون شاعر ايرلندي يتأمل الشمس من نافذة #الحجر_المنزلي ومازال يكتب قصائده بطابعة قديمة - 4 years ago

@ShevaunWilder: RT @rtenews: At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Derek Mahon's poem 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' struck a chord with… - 4 years ago

@storychaplain: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@VKennefick: RT @Poetry_London: We were deeply saddened to learn of Derek Mahon's death last week. Our Reviews Editor Dai George has written a few words… - 4 years ago

@mj_sprackland: RT @Poetry_London: We were deeply saddened to learn of Derek Mahon's death last week. Our Reviews Editor Dai George has written a few words… - 4 years ago

@Channel_LitMag: Accept what happens. Whether the gods allow us fifty winters more or drop us at this one now which flings the high… - 4 years ago

@poetryjukebox: RT @HeaneyCentre: A tribute to Derek Mahon by our friend, and Advisory Board member Gerry Dawe. @PoetryProgRTE @tcddublin @RTERadioPlayer… - 4 years ago

@emma_gattoni: #OttobreCon "Quando ti fermi a pensare ai giorni trascorsi a sognare un futuro e poi dici, la mia vita’. ... Ma s… - 4 years ago

@julijuxtaposed: RT @casparhenderson: @prairielaura @llewelyn_morgan @Seb_Falk That would be delightful. There is hope for the United States when radio edit… - 4 years ago

@OctPoetryMonth: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Coming up in the 1st @PoetryProgRTE of a new series Sun 11 Oct 7:30pm @RTERadio1 poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & her l… - 4 years ago

@ToyinOdelade: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Coming up in the 1st @PoetryProgRTE of a new series Sun 11 Oct 7:30pm @RTERadio1 poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & her l… - 4 years ago

@1annecasey: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Coming up in the 1st @PoetryProgRTE of a new series Sun 11 Oct 7:30pm @RTERadio1 poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & her l… - 4 years ago

@miguidice: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@miguidice: Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@TweetdiVersi: Gli spiriti si sono dispersi, i boschi sfumati di grigio dall’azzurro di mezzanotte Lasciando un residuo di polvere… - 4 years ago

@miguidice: Derek Mahon, Belfast-born giant of Irish poetry, dies aged 78 | Poetry | The Guardian - 4 years ago

@JamesJClaffey: RT @GleesonEileen: ‘The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight watc… - 4 years ago

@NYpoet: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Coming up in the 1st @PoetryProgRTE of a new series Sun 11 Oct 7:30pm @RTERadio1 poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & her l… - 4 years ago

@SunaAfshan: RT @Poetry_London: We were deeply saddened to learn of Derek Mahon's death last week. Our Reviews Editor Dai George has written a few words… - 4 years ago

@CliveWelsh: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Lovely tribute by Gerald Dawe to Derek Mahon. @OlwenCD - 4 years ago

@naushsabah: RT @Poetry_London: We were deeply saddened to learn of Derek Mahon's death last week. Our Reviews Editor Dai George has written a few words… - 4 years ago

@Poetry_London: We were deeply saddened to learn of Derek Mahon's death last week. Our Reviews Editor Dai George has written a few… - 4 years ago

@MaryKenny4: Startlingly honest, revealing yet altogether fair obituary of Derek Mahon in today's (London) Times. A great poet,… - 4 years ago

@Gina25012: RT @svenbirkerts: Derek Mahon 11.23.41-10.1.2020 - 4 years ago

@koerzi: RT @TimesObits: There are public poets and there are private poets. Derek Mahon, a leading light of that exceptional group from Northern Ir… - 4 years ago

@TimesObits: There are public poets and there are private poets. Derek Mahon, a leading light of that exceptional group from Nor… - 4 years ago

@CormacKinsella: RT @PoetryProgRTE: Coming up in the 1st @PoetryProgRTE of a new series Sun 11 Oct 7:30pm @RTERadio1 poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & her l… - 4 years ago

@SmartBelfast: Derek Mahon, Belfast-born giant of Irish poetry, dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@PeterOr09298890: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@TeaRosewThorns: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@VERSeOttawa: RT @bookgaga: Oh yes ... @mescal_paul reading Derek Mahon's "Everything is Going to Be All Right" is just what we need, for so many reasons… - 4 years ago

@sharperpencils: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@mariapower: RT @PresidentIRL: "The loss of Derek Mahon, yet another artist gone from us in recent times, is like the falling of oak trees. We are left… - 4 years ago

@IrishHalifax: RT @guardian: Derek Mahon, Belfast-born giant of Irish poetry, dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@JohnDPhelan: RT @PresidentIRL: "The loss of Derek Mahon, yet another artist gone from us in recent times, is like the falling of oak trees. We are left… - 4 years ago

@drdawnmiranda: RT @ACNIWriting: I'm not sure you could better this coming through your door on the day Derek Mahon died, and so close to Ciaran Carson's f… - 4 years ago

@ciaranmacairt: ‘Witty, perceptive, provocative’: President leads tributes to poet Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@katemagee: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@gustavision: RT @TheGalleryPress: We announce with deepest sorrow the death of Derek Mahon, master poet, pure artist. To his partner Sarah Iremonger and… - 4 years ago

@sallyknocker: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@bro_james: RT @PeterDFleetwood: Find a comfortable chair, close your eyes… & listen to Fergal Keane reading Derek Mahon’s poem. It'll do your heart go… - 4 years ago

@Monkeyt034: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@MeetingsIvor: RT @AlanGilsenan1: Saddened to hear of the death of the great Derek Mahon. I had the rare pleasure of filming him in Kinsale not long ago..… - 4 years ago

@blueand_i: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@HustonGilmore: Just found out within about a 60 second period Derek Mahon and Eddie Van Halen have both died. Virtuosi both, going… - 4 years ago

@Gastone_derolla: RT @mrtotalitarismo: fonte (bel pezzo) - 4 years ago

@BezineThe: RT @MYDekel469: Derek Mahon, Belfast-born giant of Irish poetry, dies aged 78 : Poetry | The Guardian - 4 years ago

@emurf: To quote the late Derek Mahon who passed away last week in his version of the famous Irish poem An Bonnán Buí (The… - 4 years ago

@Ursulabuston: RT @roycroftpoetry: On my 15th birthday my late Dad took me to Dillons, Belfast, and bought me this book. He neither read nor appreciated p… - 4 years ago

@Ursulabuston: RT @ImeldaOfficial: RIP Derek Mahon. Wonderful Belfast Poet. #DerekMahon - 4 years ago

@sarahjanehan: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@EvieWells18: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@Rob_Miles_Poet: RT @PoetrySociety: I have been working for years on a four-line poem about the life of a leaf; I think it might come out right this winter.… - 4 years ago

@MYDekel469: Derek Mahon, Belfast-born giant of Irish poetry, dies aged 78 : Poetry | The Guardian - 4 years ago

@casparhenderson: @prairielaura @llewelyn_morgan @Seb_Falk That would be delightful. There is hope for the United States when radio e… - 4 years ago

@FabioGaruccio: Ci sarà la morte, ci sarà la morte Ma non c'è bisogno di parlarne il sole sorge nonostante tutto E io giaccio qui… - 4 years ago

@feedinggroom: RT @NYTObits: Derek Mahon, Popular Irish Poet, Is Dead at 78 - 4 years ago

@positivie_vibes: RT @friel_raymond: We need songs of hope right now. Here’s one from the late, great Derek Mahon, “Everything is going to be all right”, rea… - 4 years ago

@mariandev1: RT @friel_raymond: We need songs of hope right now. Here’s one from the late, great Derek Mahon, “Everything is going to be all right”, rea… - 4 years ago

@friel_raymond: We need songs of hope right now. Here’s one from the late, great Derek Mahon, “Everything is going to be all right”… - 4 years ago

@hilarytnc: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@Deardarkness: RT @TheGalleryPress: We announce with deepest sorrow the death of Derek Mahon, master poet, pure artist. To his partner Sarah Iremonger and… - 4 years ago

@NYTObits: Derek Mahon, Popular Irish Poet, Is Dead at 78 - 4 years ago

@JoanneLost: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@ForsterImogen: RT @nemoloris: Listing for new Derek Mahon book. - 4 years ago

@mrtotalitarismo: fonte (bel pezzo) - 4 years ago

@ghipszky: RT @adrianmckinty: 1/3 the great Belfast poet Derek Mahon has died I loved his stuff & what a kind, beautiful spirit he was his father &… - 4 years ago

@ghipszky: RT @adrianmckinty: nice obituary of Derek Mahon in the New York Times this morning: & here's one of Mahon's less… - 4 years ago

@_carriell: RT @r_vallen: A favourite poem of all time by Derek Mahon @PN_Review - 4 years ago

@MichaelFarrellE: RT @AlanGilsenan1: Saddened to hear of the death of the great Derek Mahon. I had the rare pleasure of filming him in Kinsale not long ago..… - 4 years ago

@meditaudios: ☏ Derek Mahon, Belfast-born poet whose verse assuaged pandemic anxiety, dies age 78 #News - 4 years ago

@JackieFr: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@poobathy: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@nur_anonym_: Derek Mahon – Tudo vai ficar bem - 4 years ago

@marineibol: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@rachelbauch: RT @called_back: Andrew Scott reads Derek Mahon's poem 'Everything is Going to be All Right' - 4 years ago

@DearDipika: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@mcgovepc: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@Readeropolis: Derek Mahon, Popular Irish Poet, Is Dead at 78 - 4 years ago

@Kenkyusha_PR: 【訃報】北アイルランドの詩人デレク・マホン(Derek Mahon)氏が、2020年10月1日、逝去。78歳。 Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged… - 4 years ago

@JosephEdmundKe1: @moorehn The Irish poet Derek Mahon just passed away. Read "In a Disused Shed in Co. Wexford"; you will be glad. - 4 years ago

@LornaFarrelly_: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@MorningShowAMS: Derek Mahon, whose poem consoled during pandemic, dies at 78 - 4 years ago

@kelly_konya: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@pandit_jr: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@pandit_jr: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Everything Is Going To Be All Right by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@pandit_jr: RT @DunleavyBernard: When we were all first frightened by COVID-19 the national broadcaster ended the news with poetry, and it was no surpr… - 4 years ago

@pandit_jr: RT @rtenews: A poem: 'Everything is going to be all right' Amid the sad news and anxiety the Covid-19 crisis is causing us all, here are w… - 4 years ago

@IvernianEye: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@pandit_jr: RT @DanMulhall: We might be anywhere but are in one place only, One of the milestones of earth-residence Unique in each particular, the thi… - 4 years ago

@pandit_jr: RT @DanMulhall: A reading of a favourite poem, ‘Kinsale’ by Derek Mahon, a major Irish poet who died yesterday. - 4 years ago

@jgonn: 📹 Derek Mahon Documentary - 4 years ago

@philosophylinks: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@tomaxhull: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@filmiholic: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@Danbrad77778390: RT @Loverdesart: You come back once more to this dazzling shore its warm uterine rinse heart-racing heave & groan A quick gasp as you sli… - 4 years ago

@oothoon: How should I not be glad to contemplate the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window and a high tide reflected on t… - 4 years ago

@holbrookfields: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@SwiersEmma: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@sfdaya: Everything is Going to be All Right Farewell to Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@Thehousepresent: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@dematerialise: RT @MatthewOToole2: Pleased to have secured a short debate in the @niassembly this morning to mark the passing of the wonderful Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@SorchaHolloway: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@CarbaughSj: RT @Tweet_Dec: I am now with child and the father is this video of Andrew Scott reading Derek Mahon’s poem Everything Is Going To Be Alrigh… - 4 years ago

@CommsKathryn: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@espiegler: @Tweet_Dec Derek Mahon died just 2 days ago. Bless him. - 4 years ago

@avi_weisfogel: Irish poet Derek Mahon dies by The World - 4 years ago

@Master_Venture: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@GillHessLtd: RT @BooksUpstairs: Derek Mahon, author of these lines from “A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford” has died. Another great Irish poet has passed.… - 4 years ago

@morgendann: RT @george_szirtes: 'The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight wat… - 4 years ago

@jsilerauthor: Everything is Going to Be Alright, by the late Irish poet Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@Brianypaulbria1: RT @TheIrelandFunds: The Ireland Funds is saddened at the passing of Derek Mahon, one of the foremost contemporary Irish poets, and 1987 wi… - 4 years ago

@AntoniaBaranov1: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@mmiedl: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@annepetrie6: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@love_laugh_eat: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@fbpedone: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@niamhgaine: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@C8257877: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@AndreaThomson26: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@Moraohiggins: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@jamesdecay: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@surgeonwriter: Derek Mahon, Popular Irish Poet, Is Dead at 78 #books #literature - 4 years ago

@babsgalvin: RT @CityofDublinETB: ‘I lie here in a riot of sunlight watching the day break and the clouds flying. Everything is going to be all right’… - 4 years ago

@claireogalla: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@AmandaHamilton8: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@wrafter_colin: RT @MatthewOToole2: Pleased to have secured a short debate in the @niassembly this morning to mark the passing of the wonderful Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@dk3lly: "Do you want to stick a bit of a poem in there, maybe your man Derek Mahon, Taoiseach?" "Ah feck off, I'm not like… - 4 years ago

@BridMcGrath: RT @MatthewOToole2: Pleased to have secured a short debate in the @niassembly this morning to mark the passing of the wonderful Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@BromleyHouseLib: RT @lizziespeller: "The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight watc… - 4 years ago

@fitzclo: ‘How to Live’ by Derek Mahon Poem on a bench on a walk up Breakheart Hill earlier today. ❤️ #poem #derekmahon… - 4 years ago

@louflah: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@irishmod_vienna: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@diarmaid_w: RT @MatthewOToole2: Pleased to have secured a short debate in the @niassembly this morning to mark the passing of the wonderful Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@maighreadkenne5: RT @MatthewOToole2: Pleased to have secured a short debate in the @niassembly this morning to mark the passing of the wonderful Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@ruthactyahooie1: RT @RTEArena: 🎧 New podcast. @SeanRocksARENA is joined by friends & admirers in paying tribute to Belfast poet Derek Mahon on the very sad… - 4 years ago

@Neadyclone: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@RTESunMisc: RT @dedalusdenaries: My old friend and poet Gerald Dawe shared a moving and insightful elegy for Derek Mahon on ⁦@RTESunMisc⁩, with much of… - 4 years ago

@Cindynb5: RT @PoetrySociety: The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight watch… - 4 years ago

@Coicoi_welcome: RT @PresidentIRL: "The loss of Derek Mahon, yet another artist gone from us in recent times, is like the falling of oak trees. We are left… - 4 years ago

@swench: RT @RTEArena: 🎧 New podcast. @SeanRocksARENA is joined by friends & admirers in paying tribute to Belfast poet Derek Mahon on the very sad… - 4 years ago

@merylpoet: I don’t know how many people read obituaries, but they are part of my reading matter. The Irish poet, Derek Mahon,… - 4 years ago

@ClaireHanna: RT @MatthewOToole2: Pleased to have secured a short debate in the @niassembly this morning to mark the passing of the wonderful Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@harleycaligirl: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@schenewark: RT @ladyhaja: andrew scott doing his lockdown bit by reading derek mahon’s everything is going to be all right (this makes me weep for th… - 4 years ago

@cathalcoleman11: RT @dedalusdenaries: My old friend and poet Gerald Dawe shared a moving and insightful elegy for Derek Mahon on ⁦@RTESunMisc⁩, with much of… - 4 years ago

@CTYJohnsHopkins: "Everything is Going to be All Right" by Derek Mahon. #poetry - 4 years ago

@rpcremins: @dedalusdenaries @RTESunMisc Derek Mahon listening to Björk—northern soul - 4 years ago

@SharonLMartin1: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@MEMS_Newcastle: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@BridDunneOT: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@KellyAnneByrne2: RT @RTEArena: 🎧 New podcast. @SeanRocksARENA is joined by friends & admirers in paying tribute to Belfast poet Derek Mahon on the very sad… - 4 years ago

@mharvey816: RT @NYTObits: Amid the coronavirus pandemic, his 1978 poem “Everything Is Going to Be All Right" has found new resonance - 4 years ago

@selfstyledsiren: RT @NYTObits: Amid the coronavirus pandemic, his 1978 poem “Everything Is Going to Be All Right" has found new resonance - 4 years ago

@DaithiKel: RT @nytimesbooks: Derek Mahon, an Irish poet who wove together history, personal demons and quiet contemplation in works that could be dark… - 4 years ago

@OOH99: RT @nytimesbooks: Derek Mahon, an Irish poet who wove together history, personal demons and quiet contemplation in works that could be dark… - 4 years ago

@NYTObits: Amid the coronavirus pandemic, his 1978 poem “Everything Is Going to Be All Right" has found new resonance - 4 years ago

@MiroVillar: RT @nytimesbooks: Derek Mahon, an Irish poet who wove together history, personal demons and quiet contemplation in works that could be dark… - 4 years ago

@_NickJGraham: RT @nytimesbooks: Derek Mahon, an Irish poet who wove together history, personal demons and quiet contemplation in works that could be dark… - 4 years ago

@nigcharlesworth: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@andrinaeuropa: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@Samikchya_: RT @nytimesbooks: Derek Mahon, an Irish poet who wove together history, personal demons and quiet contemplation in works that could be dark… - 4 years ago

@AKimCampbell: RT @nytimesbooks: Derek Mahon, an Irish poet who wove together history, personal demons and quiet contemplation in works that could be dark… - 4 years ago

@derek_alcorn: @MatthewOToole2 @niassembly Good to see Derek Mahon acknowledged so competently in the Assembly. Nice tribute. - 4 years ago

@Sanders4Health: RT @maggie_gilbert: @DrDMacaskill @scottishcare Agree with all of this - as someone who works in this sector and also has a 92 year old mum… - 4 years ago

@madbear33: RT @nytimesbooks: Derek Mahon, an Irish poet who wove together history, personal demons and quiet contemplation in works that could be dark… - 4 years ago

@osullilu: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@MrGaunt: RT @nytimesbooks: Derek Mahon, an Irish poet who wove together history, personal demons and quiet contemplation in works that could be dark… - 4 years ago

@MickeyG_68: RT @MatthewOToole2: Pleased to have secured a short debate in the @niassembly this morning to mark the passing of the wonderful Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@GabiBjornstrand: RIP Derek Mahon, Irish poet. 1941-1920. - 4 years ago

@AngeHalle: RT @nytimesbooks: Derek Mahon, an Irish poet who wove together history, personal demons and quiet contemplation in works that could be dark… - 4 years ago

@ana_captures: RT @nytimesbooks: Derek Mahon, an Irish poet who wove together history, personal demons and quiet contemplation in works that could be dark… - 4 years ago

@carrtogram: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@putt1ck: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@ailbhelongmore: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@Theaulred: @IanChopperLowry @BridgetCairns The Late Derek Mahon, I reckon. He’s fierce fond of the reflected glory - 4 years ago

@jeannemarie16: RT @poetryireland: An extraordinarily brilliant poet and a gifted and noble observer of our world - we remember poet Derek Mahon who has sa… - 4 years ago

@JFennellAuthor: RT @BooksUpstairs: Derek Mahon, author of these lines from “A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford” has died. Another great Irish poet has passed.… - 4 years ago

@jeannemarie16: @poetryireland 🌿🕊Penshurst Place   A pearl face, numinously bright, shining in silence of the night, .... the scree… - 4 years ago

@carrie_sophie: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@mcevoygill2: RT @BooksUpstairs: Derek Mahon, author of these lines from “A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford” has died. Another great Irish poet has passed.… - 4 years ago

@justshowup4life: RT @DannyWittenberg: For something a bit uplifting, our tribute to Irish poet Derek Mahon. Privileged to produce this report – and possibl… - 4 years ago

@dodd_ec: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@joeldeane: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@declandeasy: RT @BrigidLaffan: ‘Act with zest one day at a time, and never mind the rest’ Derek Mahon RIP - 4 years ago

@LSMcD2: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@DrCDBailey: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@dobs83: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@poetclark: @svenbirkerts Good answers so far. It takes great use of language, of course, and conciseness, but also a timeless… - 4 years ago

@knockavullig: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@Blake_Brooks: RT @UCDPress: Words to live by RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@IrelandFundsAM: RT @TheIrelandFunds: The Ireland Funds is saddened at the passing of Derek Mahon, one of the foremost contemporary Irish poets, and 1987 wi… - 4 years ago

@paudiemccarthyv: RT @DannyWittenberg: For something a bit uplifting, our tribute to Irish poet Derek Mahon. Privileged to produce this report – and possibl… - 4 years ago

@Davidsgardiner: RIP Derek Mahon. “Bhuddism with a Belfast accent” as someone once said. This is perhaps apt for the times we’re in. - 4 years ago

@hanthethinks: RT @Chris_Creegan: So sad to hear that Derek Mahon has died. This reading of his poem, Everything Is Going To Be Alright, by Andrew Scott,… - 4 years ago

@lautumsignileef: I want to say: "This is what it is to live with poetry." But I know better now. It is one way. If other forms nouri… - 4 years ago

@lautumsignileef: And more recently, in 2019, about Against the Clock, his last collection, about the politics of his--and my--aesthe… - 4 years ago

@lautumsignileef: I wrote my undergrad thesis on Derek Mahon's "The Hudson Letter" and continued to live with his poetry for two deca… - 4 years ago

@stw24: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@lucykc13: RT @DannyWittenberg: For something a bit uplifting, our tribute to Irish poet Derek Mahon. Privileged to produce this report – and possibl… - 4 years ago

@hanthethinks: To mark the death of Derek Mahon. What a gift his words are. #TwitterNeedsPoetry - 4 years ago

@DriffieldRoad1: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@frpaddybyrne: RT @DannyWittenberg: For something a bit uplifting, our tribute to Irish poet Derek Mahon. Privileged to produce this report – and possibl… - 4 years ago

@thetardiskey: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@kevino253: Heaney sees teachers as opening up poems to readers. Have just read a commentary on Derek Mahon's 'A Disused Shed… - 4 years ago

@DaliPurple: RT @LHannaway1: Derek Mahon Heraclitus on Rivers / Everything is Going to be All Right #covid19poetry #southarmagh @poetryireland @ChairOfP… - 4 years ago

@JaneKarwat: RT @JosephONeillx: One of the greatest things about Ireland is that poems, and poets like Derek Mahon, are authentically present in popular… - 4 years ago

@ascialpi59: E' morto Derek Mahon, il poeta nordirlandese noto per essere l'autore della celebre frase "#andratuttobene", divent… - 4 years ago

@nemoloris: Dipping into Steve Enniss's rather ill-fated biography of Derek Mahon I am reminded that in 1981 Seamus Heaney agre… - 4 years ago

@ChuckDalldorf: RT @IrishLitTimes: Poetry Ireland is deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. | Poetry Ireland - 4 years ago

@IrishLitTimes: RT @IrishLitTimes: Poetry Ireland is deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. | Poetry Ireland - 4 years ago

@ca78john: RT @henryghenrik: Derek Mahon, Popular Irish Poet, Is Dead at 78 - 4 years ago

@whasshappenss: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@conalowens2: RT @LyricBelfast: The Lyric is very sorry to hear of the death of the extraordinary Belfast born poet Derek Mahon. Our sympathies go out… - 4 years ago

@neilbowen3: RT @curry_matthew: Derek Mahon was one of the first poets I really got into. There was a directness and clarity that went straight in, when… - 4 years ago

@nicie_panetta: RT @DanMulhall: A reading of a favourite poem, ‘Kinsale’ by Derek Mahon, a major Irish poet who died yesterday. - 4 years ago

@BridgesVictoria: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@Sofia04052020: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@PeterPa60491353: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@melpryorpoetry: RT @neilsonandrew: Just gutted all day about Derek Mahon, whose singing line was as formative as it gets for me. At least I able to tell hi… - 4 years ago

@MMcilfatrick: @mkimdorman yes, "for the days are long ... " - Derek Mahon's "Dream Days" (in Selected Poems @TheGalleryPress) - 4 years ago

@lornasiggins: RT @DannyWittenberg: For something a bit uplifting, our tribute to Irish poet Derek Mahon. Privileged to produce this report – and possibl… - 4 years ago

@neilbowen3: RIP Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@shona_barrett: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@CormacKinsella: RT @seamusheaneyest: Deeply saddened to hear of the death of Derek Mahon. An early friend of SH, fellow poet and a true master of his art.… - 4 years ago

@mudiek: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@monsamga: RT @mallauger: Fa 3 dies, va morir un altre dels noms importants de la poesia irlandesa d'ara: Derek Mahon. @SubiranaJaume ens en tradueix… - 4 years ago

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@LivingByTheNess: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@blath13: RT @1GaryGannon: ‘He is just going outside and may be sometime- ‘ Rest in peace, Derek Mahon. Thank you for the gifts you’ve left us. ‘… - 4 years ago

@fridayisgood: RT @rtenews: At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Derek Mahon's poem 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' struck a chord with… - 4 years ago

@FionnualaWRegan: RT @DanMulhall: A reading of a favourite poem, ‘Kinsale’ by Derek Mahon, a major Irish poet who died yesterday. - 4 years ago

@CherrySmyth: RT @TheGalleryPress: We announce with deepest sorrow the death of Derek Mahon, master poet, pure artist. To his partner Sarah Iremonger and… - 4 years ago

@MikeIon: Derek Mahon, Irish poet Rest in Peace - 4 years ago

@RosieLReader: RT @DanMulhall: A reading of a favourite poem, ‘Kinsale’ by Derek Mahon, a major Irish poet who died yesterday. - 4 years ago

@barryokellyrte: RT @MiriamOCal: Coming up @RTERadio1 10am Sunday with Miriam- @fergalkeane47 on the master that was poet Derek Mahon&how his poetry helped… - 4 years ago

@susanokeeffe: RT @DanMulhall: A reading of a favourite poem, ‘Kinsale’ by Derek Mahon, a major Irish poet who died yesterday. - 4 years ago

@emmahannon_: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@eithne_cullen: RT @PoetrySociety: Derek Mahon, Belfast-born giant of Irish poetry, dies aged 78 Poet famed for A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford and Everythi… - 4 years ago

@sarahsharkey5: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@leeofthemail: RT @MiriamOCal: Coming up @RTERadio1 10am Sunday with Miriam- @fergalkeane47 on the master that was poet Derek Mahon&how his poetry helped… - 4 years ago

@AgentSxxxxe316: Derek Mahon, from Selected Poems - 4 years ago

@girlnamedsusan: RT @ladyhaja: andrew scott doing his lockdown bit by reading derek mahon’s everything is going to be all right (this makes me weep for th… - 4 years ago

@Siobhan60384749: RT @MiriamOCal: Coming up @RTERadio1 10am Sunday with Miriam- @fergalkeane47 on the master that was poet Derek Mahon&how his poetry helped… - 4 years ago

@Berkiel: RT @AlanGilsenan1: Saddened to hear of the death of the great Derek Mahon. I had the rare pleasure of filming him in Kinsale not long ago..… - 4 years ago

@MaryDowey: A touching @RTESunMisc this morning. Especially enjoyed Gerald Dawe’s tribute to Derek Mahon. He was my second cous… - 4 years ago

@roisinmcauley: RT @PatrickJMB: @RTESunMisc @RedLineBookFest @ThresholdIRE @RTE_Culture Antrim Rd and Clifden St getting honourable mentions, great outings… - 4 years ago

@roisinmcauley: RT @RTESunMisc: Full line-up this morning: Robert Frost, by Jerusha McCormack; The Belfast Blitz, by Garrett Igoe; Telephone, by Nicole Fl… - 4 years ago

@mppgeary: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@VictoriaMcGuin8: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@ModernCassie: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@BelleriveFCJ: 1/2 Still on the subject of poetry, the death was announced this week of Derek Mahon, a giant of modern literature… - 4 years ago

@brianjohnspencr: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@brianjohnspencr: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@mn_irl: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@simondoyle: RT @AlanGilsenan1: Saddened to hear of the death of the great Derek Mahon. I had the rare pleasure of filming him in Kinsale not long ago..… - 4 years ago

@jillymacdowell: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@Colm_Kelleher: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@gapingmaws: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@LurigDramaCDall: RT @RTESunMisc: Coming up tomorrow (4 Oct 2020): remembering Derek Mahon. Also, childhood memories of Robert Frost; a mother's delight in P… - 4 years ago

@CarolWi40104427: RT @declanlong: Derek Mahon, 1941-2020. - 4 years ago

@kyvatta: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@egtrejos: The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight… - 4 years ago

@Migu3l_Ruiz: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@michaeljwaldron: RT @AlanGilsenan1: Saddened to hear of the death of the great Derek Mahon. I had the rare pleasure of filming him in Kinsale not long ago..… - 4 years ago

@alexandremikan1: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@OonaghYGallery: RT @AlanGilsenan1: Saddened to hear of the death of the great Derek Mahon. I had the rare pleasure of filming him in Kinsale not long ago..… - 4 years ago

@artdeptcercork: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@neilrichards365: RT @PoetrySociety: I have been working for years on a four-line poem about the life of a leaf; I think it might come out right this winter.… - 4 years ago

@stoneandthestar: RT @PoetrySociety: I have been working for years on a four-line poem about the life of a leaf; I think it might come out right this winter.… - 4 years ago

@poem_unlimited: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@JayneMulhall: RT @DanMulhall: A reading of a favourite poem, ‘Kinsale’ by Derek Mahon, a major Irish poet who died yesterday. - 4 years ago

@KathyFoley: RT @PoetrySociety: I have been working for years on a four-line poem about the life of a leaf; I think it might come out right this winter.… - 4 years ago

@Ermione42: Daily poem 📖 "Leaves" by Derek Mahon 🍂🍁🍂 Enjoy it! @Hozier @kristina_vidic - 4 years ago

@agrainne24: RT @ImeldaOfficial: RIP Derek Mahon. Wonderful Belfast Poet. #DerekMahon - 4 years ago

@TeamEnglishIre: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@AreYou_Caden_Me: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@pwschatz: RT @PoetrySociety: I have been working for years on a four-line poem about the life of a leaf; I think it might come out right this winter.… - 4 years ago

@PoetrySociety: I have been working for years on a four-line poem about the life of a leaf; I think it might come out right this wi… - 4 years ago

@sleekerr: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@SonyaBroderick: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@marygoodwin797: RT @ImeldaOfficial: RIP Derek Mahon. Wonderful Belfast Poet. #DerekMahon - 4 years ago

@johnpimm: RT @ImeldaOfficial: RIP Derek Mahon. Wonderful Belfast Poet. #DerekMahon - 4 years ago

@MagicJ_001: RT @rtenews: At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Derek Mahon's poem 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' struck a chord with… - 4 years ago

@TurningPirate: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@fiddlemegmac: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@im_coasts: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@pauriclodge: RT @DannyWittenberg: For something a bit uplifting, our tribute to Irish poet Derek Mahon. Privileged to produce this report – and possibl… - 4 years ago

@Gadfly74: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@BellaWho: RT @DanMulhall: A reading of a favourite poem, ‘Kinsale’ by Derek Mahon, a major Irish poet who died yesterday. - 4 years ago

@holbrookfields: RT @ImeldaOfficial: RIP Derek Mahon. Wonderful Belfast Poet. #DerekMahon - 4 years ago

@hmd_db: RT @PatrickCorrigan: Rest in peace, Derek Mahon. Afterlives, a poem about going home to Belfast. - 4 years ago

@Mignon35278197: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@la_sforza: RT @friendschurches: In a tiny stone church On a desolate headland A lost tribe is singing 'Abide with Me'. - Nostalgia RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@RichardNSkinner: RT @declanlong: Derek Mahon, 1941-2020. - 4 years ago

@poemtoday: Two poems by Derek Mahon, RIP.... - 4 years ago

@reneeatsea: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@conorpkelly: Poetry: today the poem @poemtoday is Nostalgias and at - 4 years ago

@tidesntales: RT @RTESunMisc: Coming up tomorrow (4 Oct 2020): remembering Derek Mahon. Also, childhood memories of Robert Frost; a mother's delight in P… - 4 years ago

@Wee_Birdie: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@hannahmileswtsn: RT @MarkJWarner1: Everything Is Going To Be Alright, Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@hcfigueiredo: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@anitagalvin3: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@wiggedy: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@nosilaforlife: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@MattQuinnsMusic: RT @LyricBelfast: The Lyric is very sorry to hear of the death of the extraordinary Belfast born poet Derek Mahon. Our sympathies go out… - 4 years ago

@scent_ala_fleur: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@seanonline910: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@cateire: RT @Roisindubh2: "Everything is going to be alright" Derek Mahon RIP Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam - 4 years ago

@beatgozon: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@hm_hashi: RT @DannyWittenberg: For something a bit uplifting, our tribute to Irish poet Derek Mahon. Privileged to produce this report – and possibl… - 4 years ago

@JulianFootprint: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@Stephen___H: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@madbeyond: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@_ballyscullion: RT @declanlong: Derek Mahon, 1941-2020. - 4 years ago

@ursuladonnelly: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@CMK_UK: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@KCsixtyseven: Was actually reading it earlier, @m_r_west. The World of Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@Jomarymonk: RT @PoetrySociety: The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight watch… - 4 years ago

@Kobrien63P: RT @MisterJohnDoyle: And now Derek Mahon is dead. A great poet, an intimidating presence in the Dublin of my youth when he was there. And h… - 4 years ago

@CAPSeunarine: RT @MisterJohnDoyle: In March, as the pandemic & grim panic gripped Ireland, like so many places, the nightly news on national broadcaster… - 4 years ago

@Jo_Ashley: RIP Derek Mahon, and thank you for sharing his poem @GylesB1 ...really appreciated hearing that sentiment today 💜💜💜🤗 - 4 years ago

@jo031068: RT @PoetrySociety: The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight watch… - 4 years ago

@KevBurkeEnjoys: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@KevinGardner520: RT @friendschurches: In a tiny stone church On a desolate headland A lost tribe is singing 'Abide with Me'. - Nostalgia RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@CailinCeltic: RT @rtenews: A poem: 'Everything is going to be all right' Amid the sad news and anxiety the Covid-19 crisis is causing us all, here are w… - 4 years ago

@jenkers_en: #Derek #Mahon, whose poem consoled during the #coronavirus pandemic, dies at 78 - 4 years ago

@RossJGildea: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@TonyBinDC: RT @rtenews: At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Derek Mahon's poem 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' struck a chord with… - 4 years ago

@Megpowers22: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@LaniohanlonO: RT @Audrey_Molloy: So many wonderful choices, but Antarctica is one of my favourite Derek Mahon poems. - 4 years ago

@Scroninn: RT @CailinCeltic: Everything is going to be alright. Poem by Derek Mahon Everything Is Going To Be Alr… - 4 years ago

@jonnyplanetgong: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@PoetrySociety: The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight… - 4 years ago

@JimNaught: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@chrisinsomerset: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@CheLucozade: Easy to overlook today the passing of one of the great poets in the language--Irish poet Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@customdeluxe: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@Wacko881: RT @Chris_Creegan: So sad to hear that Derek Mahon has died. This reading of his poem, Everything Is Going To Be Alright, by Andrew Scott,… - 4 years ago

@mikecpowell: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@KathleenDonohoe: RT @billythescribe: Derek Mahon's passing leaves a huge hole in Irish literature. Genuine greats are few and far between, but he was one. h… - 4 years ago

@murray_bt: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@wmboyle4: RT @billythescribe: Derek Mahon's passing leaves a huge hole in Irish literature. Genuine greats are few and far between, but he was one. h… - 4 years ago

@litemeter: RT @PoetrySociety: Derek Mahon, Belfast-born giant of Irish poetry, dies aged 78 Poet famed for A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford and Everythi… - 4 years ago

@amandamcoakley: @fergalkeane47 reading Derek Mahon’s ‘Everything is going to be Alright’ is the best thing you will hear today. Bea… - 4 years ago

@irishfabian: RT @RTESunMisc: Coming up tomorrow (4 Oct 2020): remembering Derek Mahon. Also, childhood memories of Robert Frost; a mother's delight in P… - 4 years ago

@donalmurphy: Locked in the winter's fist, these hills are hard As nails, yet soft and feminine in their turn When fingers open a… - 4 years ago

@kydowling: RT @neilsonandrew: Just gutted all day about Derek Mahon, whose singing line was as formative as it gets for me. At least I able to tell hi… - 4 years ago

@MissGreads: RT @PoetrySociety: Derek Mahon, Belfast-born giant of Irish poetry, dies aged 78 Poet famed for A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford and Everythi… - 4 years ago

@mkw72: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@mkeane: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@TheBlackBlogofC: RT @PoetrySociety: Derek Mahon, Belfast-born giant of Irish poetry, dies aged 78 Poet famed for A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford and Everythi… - 4 years ago

@bbclysedoucet: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@Mr_Considerate: Flicking around in Derek Mahon’s Collected Poems since his death, and it’s a silly thing to notice, but it seems to… - 4 years ago

@Nick_Fletcher14: RT @TimKendall70: I have just heard that Derek Mahon has died. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on him. Those early volumes---before he set… - 4 years ago

@BellaBosworth: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@RobbieGilligan: RT @declanlong: Derek Mahon, 1941-2020. - 4 years ago

@FurryDuffer: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Eamon Grennan: “And as cold, sad and grief-struck as we have to be at his going, I know for certain that the peerless po… - 4 years ago

@johnmacleod19: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Eamon Grennan: “And as cold, sad and grief-struck as we have to be at his going, I know for certain that the peerless po… - 4 years ago

@LucyMCarver: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@debsashfield: 'soft-drink ads and the uneven ground / Rainbowed with oily puddles'. from 'A Garage in Co. Cork', by Derek Mahon.… - 4 years ago

@Soupelina: RT @ladyhaja: andrew scott doing his lockdown bit by reading derek mahon’s everything is going to be all right (this makes me weep for th… - 4 years ago

@Noreendarcy: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@HelenDuffy_HRP: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@LardSigur: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@CatherineMacca: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@RealPradaxa: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@IanCallaway352: RT @IrishTimesBooks: President leads tributes to poet Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@tshepomasoeu: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@Soupelina: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@Clampers: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@NeasaHardiman: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@still_emo: RT @neilsonandrew: Just gutted all day about Derek Mahon, whose singing line was as formative as it gets for me. At least I able to tell hi… - 4 years ago

@traceyhend76: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@sublimelesley1: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@othemightyi: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@RMcKeever24: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@Pat_Bianculli: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@cwtaker: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@sheilaodonnell: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@CanningDavina: RT @rtenews: At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Derek Mahon's poem 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' struck a chord with… - 4 years ago

@SiobhanRClarke: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@lulupartizan: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@BobHunterMD: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@hattoriseanzo: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@KevinArdoin10: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@euphoric_khushi: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@katespix: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@PsueDenim: RT @DannyWittenberg: For something a bit uplifting, our tribute to Irish poet Derek Mahon. Privileged to produce this report – and possibl… - 4 years ago

@ellenmcateer: 'What middle-class shits we are'! Rest in peace, Derek Mahon...(lines from ‘Afterlives’, for James Simmons). - 4 years ago

@westirelandgirl: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@luke_andres: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@uccfilmstudies: RT @AlanGilsenan1: Saddened to hear of the death of the great Derek Mahon. I had the rare pleasure of filming him in Kinsale not long ago..… - 4 years ago

@Hiroshimalily: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Eamon Grennan: “And as cold, sad and grief-struck as we have to be at his going, I know for certain that the peerless po… - 4 years ago

@KyySnow: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@iusedtobealibra: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@surya_vn: ~Derek Mahon #Poetry - 4 years ago

@HopeGraceFury: RT @Sarah_Bakewell: I never realised that the comforting Italian slogan of the lockdown, "Andrà tutto bene", came from a poem by Derek Maho… - 4 years ago

@scruffy_jack: Derek Mahon, wonderful Irish poet has died. This is one of my favourite poems. Please take a moment to read it an… - 4 years ago

@vmax_14: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@AlannaNoMoore: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@MrsMakin83: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@JaneDesmarais: RT @fergalkeane47: The Irish Times report of his death - 4 years ago

@ElizabethWasse7: I loved Derek Mahon for his mellifluous verses: elegant; passionate; brave. I loved his glorious sense of humour.… - 4 years ago

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@DawnLPike: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@P_McGettigan: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Eamon Grennan: “And as cold, sad and grief-struck as we have to be at his going, I know for certain that the peerless po… - 4 years ago

@Bewildered2828: RT @mandapen: I filmed this version of Everything is Going to be All Right, earlier this year. Very sorry to hear of the death of Derek Mah… - 4 years ago

@scruffy_jack: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@NMcDevitt: RT @nemoloris: Glad to chip in with a few stray thoughts here. #DerekMahon - 4 years ago

@mark_osmer: RT @williamcrawley: ‘Witty, perceptive, provocative’: President leads tributes to poet Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@ejlilie: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@Michael_O_Regan: RT @LiamPRyan91: Early edition of Weekend @IrishTimes Lead may be different by time it hits shops in morning I suspect #TrumpHasCovid Derek… - 4 years ago

@Hywel_at_home: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@KellySultzbach: RT @JonathanSEllis: Derek Mahon’s “Everything is going to be all right.” On the morning his own death is announced. - 4 years ago

@JakeSeamusMom: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@poetry_hoshruba: RT @nicholasbirns: Derek Mahon, Popular Irish Poet, Is Dead at 78 - The New York Times - 4 years ago

@branleyboy: RT @MartinaCallanan: Derek Mahon’s poem “Everything Is Going To Be Alright” became - and remains - a source of solace to so many of us at t… - 4 years ago

@Bakewell2009: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@writerlance: Poet famed for A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford and Everything Is Going to be All Right, read on national TV as the pa… - 4 years ago

@constanceshortc: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@WinspearHannah: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@HuwM: RT @profbate: Truly a great. - 4 years ago

@RaptorEsq: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@JoanneConaghan: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@byrnesong: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@bettinaboo5: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@ForsterImogen: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@wosewoman: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@SteelMa05675150: RT @Chris_Creegan: So sad to hear that Derek Mahon has died. This reading of his poem, Everything Is Going To Be Alright, by Andrew Scott,… - 4 years ago

@CycleFanFred: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@2020jmsk: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@atkinspritchard: RT @amjuster: "#DerekMahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78" by #GerardSmyth (plus the poem that spoke to many about the… - 4 years ago

@IanNathanPower: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@Maryjocork: RT @SeamusHeaneyNLI: "The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight wa… - 4 years ago

@abelgalvez: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@RobertKellaghan: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@bufftheobottom: RT @nemoloris: Glad to chip in with a few stray thoughts here. #DerekMahon - 4 years ago

@BrianDL77: RT @aileen_dillane: “Act with zest one day at a time” - words to live by. RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@FergusFleming1: RT @JosephONeillx: One of the greatest things about Ireland is that poems, and poets like Derek Mahon, are authentically present in popular… - 4 years ago

@bufftheobottom: RT @AlanGilsenan1: Saddened to hear of the death of the great Derek Mahon. I had the rare pleasure of filming him in Kinsale not long ago..… - 4 years ago

@primaopoitorna: RT @fanpage: Addio a l'autore delle celebre frase "Andrà tutto bene", diventata simbolo di speranza durante il lockdown - 4 years ago

@barbjungr: RT @fergalkeane47: The Irish Times report of his death - 4 years ago

@buchadams: RT @Chris_Creegan: So sad to hear that Derek Mahon has died. This reading of his poem, Everything Is Going To Be Alright, by Andrew Scott,… - 4 years ago

@AnnetteMoir1: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@PrincipalStPat1: RT @SPCenglishdrama: Wise words for our times. Rest in peace Derek Mahon: Belfast-born poet who died today. #lovepoetry - 4 years ago

@arleneconnoll14: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@jccavanaugh: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@KenPenton: RT @SeamusHeaneyNLI: "The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight wa… - 4 years ago

@ladyrosmarino: RT @fanpage: Addio a l'autore delle celebre frase "Andrà tutto bene", diventata simbolo di speranza durante il lockdown - 4 years ago

@Neurosresh: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@OrlaOVisualArt: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@RosieCT50: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@JJ56123: RT @Tarn_nation: So sad to hear of the passing of Derek Mahon. One of my favourites from him. Homage. - 4 years ago

@undergroundboo: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

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@zoejtd: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@joeykell: RT @EnglishRachael: We don't often have poetry on @morningireland, but we did back in April when times were dark. A lot of listeners found… - 4 years ago

@BreegeSmyth: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@adoolan34: RT @sineadgleeson: What a poet Derek Mahon was. RIP. - 4 years ago

@deanfbuckley: "Antarctica" by Derek Mahon, maybe my favourite poem of all time and certainly the most influential on my own work. - 4 years ago

@LPottinger7: RT @Chris_Creegan: So sad to hear that Derek Mahon has died. This reading of his poem, Everything Is Going To Be Alright, by Andrew Scott,… - 4 years ago

@mammyproblems: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@Rory_Medcalf: RT @MartinDoyleIT: A lovely essay by the late great Derek Mahon which we published in 2017: I chose the typewriter over the internet https:… - 4 years ago

@gjc183: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@LiamPRyan91: Early edition of Weekend @IrishTimes Lead may be different by time it hits shops in morning I suspect… - 4 years ago

@LynneTirrell: @SeamusHeaneyNLI @fotoole Sad news. This article has a poignant video. - 4 years ago

@Mavisislay1: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@jonnydonegal: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@LurigDramaCDall: RT @rtenews: At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Derek Mahon's poem 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' struck a chord with… - 4 years ago

@_KathleenMcGee: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@harriet_doig: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@chrisweitz: RT @ukigoni: Irish poet Derek Mahon 1941-2020 ☘️🇮🇪 But before leaving he touched us with this magic poem on Covid-19: “Everything is going… - 4 years ago

@Smegger3: RT @seamusheaneyest: Deeply saddened to hear of the death of Derek Mahon. An early friend of SH, fellow poet and a true master of his art.… - 4 years ago

@N_Petropoulos: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@JillAshleyJone1: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@LouiseWooeez: RT @JonathanSEllis: Derek Mahon’s “Everything is going to be all right.” On the morning his own death is announced. - 4 years ago

@KatieBarry_: RT @rtenews: Tributes have been paid to one of Ireland's leading poets, Derek Mahon, who has died at the age of 78 after a short illness |… - 4 years ago

@CatrionaMorton3: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@Polaris501: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

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@sillybollard: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@davidlrattigan: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@cindywue: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@joygerrard: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@PurityBelle: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@ColleenLindsay: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@BigBadBillroth: RT @PatrickCorrigan: Rest in peace, Derek Mahon. Afterlives, a poem about going home to Belfast. - 4 years ago

@Adelai05: RT @SeamusHeaneyNLI: "The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight wa… - 4 years ago

@jakekorab: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@Adelai05: RT @guardian: Derek Mahon, Belfast-born giant of Irish poetry, dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@MarkDonegan3: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@emarshallrose: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@stucun: RT @rtenews: At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Derek Mahon's poem 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' struck a chord with… - 4 years ago

@martin_garrett: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@williamwallbook: One small thing about the late Derek Mahon. Writing my first novel I read and re-read, in particular, The Snow Part… - 4 years ago

@moflanagan22: RT @rtenews: At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Derek Mahon's poem 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' struck a chord with… - 4 years ago

@AliceSufferin: RT @cazmcclell: Sad news this evening about Derek Mahon, but grateful for this poem which has meant more than ever to us in recent months.… - 4 years ago

@LorraineRogerso: RT @rtenews: At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Derek Mahon's poem 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' struck a chord with… - 4 years ago

@fotoole: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@TheEliselise: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@petpiranha: RT @seamusheaneyest: Deeply saddened to hear of the death of Derek Mahon. An early friend of SH, fellow poet and a true master of his art.… - 4 years ago

@borry_doly: RT @rtenews: At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Derek Mahon's poem 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' struck a chord with… - 4 years ago

@yourdcsnotts: RiP Derek Mahon... “Everything is going to be alright” #DerekMahon #EveryThingIsGoingToBeAlright - 4 years ago

@jaxterbaxter: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@goingtruenorth: Antarctica, by Derek Mahon. He left us himself today. Great memories of this from leaving certificate English. Rem… - 4 years ago

@sjbbono: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@PaciaQuests: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@McGurkEamonn: RT @rtenews: At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Derek Mahon's poem 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' struck a chord with… - 4 years ago

@wobblecorn: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@SweetenedVoices: “Everything is going to be alright“ ❤️ RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@francjonsn: RT @rtenews: At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Derek Mahon's poem 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' struck a chord with… - 4 years ago

@carmel_mc_mahon: @Tweet_Dec Your caption 😊 (RIP Derek Mahon) - 4 years ago

@zozerette: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@kc_odogwu: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@dengusada: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@GrumpyPistachi0: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@_katiesaurus_: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@jesslinworld: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@PuccaPirate77: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@ClaireHanna: RT @DonalLyons: Some sound advice from Derek Mahon (or Buddhism with a Belfast accent as it was once memorably suggested). Not a man who he… - 4 years ago

@DIYMikes: RT @george_szirtes: 'The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight wat… - 4 years ago

@sinmaher02: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@EamonCassidy4: RT @DanMulhall: From a favourite Derek #Mahon poem, Kinsale: .. but today our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun, our yachts tinkling… - 4 years ago

@AJohnstonS1: RT @Tweet_Dec: I am now with child and the father is this video of Andrew Scott reading Derek Mahon’s poem Everything Is Going To Be Alrigh… - 4 years ago

@betweenstation1: RT @IrelandinSF: Very sad news today with the passing of one of Ireland’s greatest poets, Derek Mahon. As @PresidentIRL said, his loss is l… - 4 years ago

@IrelandEmbUSA: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@kujakupoet: RT @george_szirtes: 'The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight wat… - 4 years ago

@_feathersflow: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@ElisabethChappl: RT @HeaneyDaily: Everything Is Going To Be All Right Derek Mahon, Irish poet, RIP - 4 years ago

@GMamavi: RT @rtenews: At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Derek Mahon's poem 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' struck a chord with… - 4 years ago

@amortalgoat: RT @george_szirtes: 'The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight wat… - 4 years ago

@1989_PM_: RT @Tweet_Dec: Derek Mahon died this morning aged 78. As lovely a tribute to his work here as any - 4 years ago

@DavidHoulihan10: RT @poloconghaile: Such a pure, perfect poem. RIP Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@EiggBrewery: RIP Derek Mahon. Somewhere in the heaven / Of lost futures / The lives we might have lived / Have found their own fulfillment. - 4 years ago

@jonnywhitaker: Tonight at Ten with @CliveMyrieBBC and @BBCJonSopel @NickBryantNY @BBCFergusWalsh + Trump @dannysavage + Newcastle… - 4 years ago

@OlwenCD: RT @CormacKinsella: RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@Deckanbrady: RT @aileen_dillane: “Act with zest one day at a time” - words to live by. RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@AkeAlice: RT @IrishLitTimes: Poetry Ireland is deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. | Poetry Ireland - 4 years ago

@ssnewbery: RT @nemoloris: ‘Plunging into the dark forever’: the first poem from Derek Mahon’s first book. His death is a shattering loss to Irish poet… - 4 years ago

@Lit_Ireland: RT @TheGalleryPress: We announce with deepest sorrow the death of Derek Mahon, master poet, pure artist. To his partner Sarah Iremonger and… - 4 years ago

@O_Harkin: RT @IrelandinNZ: Saddened to learn of the passing of the Belfast-born poet Derek Mahon, whose poem ‘Everything is going to be alright’ touc… - 4 years ago

@laineydoyle: RT @aileen_dillane: “Act with zest one day at a time” - words to live by. RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@bbarclay9: RT @ladyhaja: andrew scott doing his lockdown bit by reading derek mahon’s everything is going to be all right (this makes me weep for th… - 4 years ago

@BOPjo_anne: RT @coaimpaul: A beautiful poem from Irish poet Derek Mahon who died earlier today: The sun rises in spite of everything and the far citie… - 4 years ago

@SeanSaid_: RT @PresidentIRL: "The loss of Derek Mahon, yet another artist gone from us in recent times, is like the falling of oak trees. We are left… - 4 years ago

@ForsterImogen: RT @nemoloris: ‘Plunging into the dark forever’: the first poem from Derek Mahon’s first book. His death is a shattering loss to Irish poet… - 4 years ago

@thejournal_ie: From a record number of Covid-19 cases in Northern Ireland to the death of poet Derek Mahon, here's what made the h… - 4 years ago

@TerreImpervie: "Morto Derek Mahon, il poeta dell’“Andrà tutto bene” Nordirlandese, aveva 78 anni, si è spento dopo una breva mala… - 4 years ago

@Ellen_M_Foley: RT @RTERadio1: We are sad to learn of the death of leading Irish poet Derek Mahon. Philip King from @SouthWind_Blows recites his words whic… - 4 years ago

@derek_alcorn: RT @AranSongs: “Singing the darkness into light”: suaimhneas síoraí ag Derek Mahon, “echo-prolonging poet!” Athfhoilsithe ag Breandán & Rua… - 4 years ago

@TheBlackBlogofC: RIP Derek Mahon. May we all share 'a future forbidden to no one'. - 4 years ago

@MartinDoyleIT: RT @Tweet_Dec: Derek Mahon died this morning aged 78. As lovely a tribute to his work here as any - 4 years ago

@stephenkeeler: RT @MedaStamper: Derek Mahon has died. Here he is saying the poem many of us most associate with him. I learned it years ago from the poet… - 4 years ago

@markmcguinness: RT @TimKendall70: I have just heard that Derek Mahon has died. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on him. Those early volumes---before he set… - 4 years ago

@barbmilne: RT @declanlong: Derek Mahon, 1941-2020. - 4 years ago

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@TrionoideEng: RT @jctEnglish: “The loss of Derek Mahon, yet another artist gone from us in recent times, is like the falling of oak trees. We are left wi… - 4 years ago

@markmcguinness: RT @neilsonandrew: Just gutted all day about Derek Mahon, whose singing line was as formative as it gets for me. At least I able to tell hi… - 4 years ago

@mariatjohnston: RT @neilsonandrew: Yes. - 4 years ago

@poloconghaile: Such a pure, perfect poem. RIP Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@artanddiaspora: RT @aileen_dillane: “Act with zest one day at a time” - words to live by. RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@josephkidney2: RT @CarolineBirdUK: ‘Now I hide in a lonely house/behind the sea’ - Derek Mahon’s classic poem (about Bruce Ismay’s troubled life after su… - 4 years ago

@adrianhendrick: RT @EnglishRachael: We don't often have poetry on @morningireland, but we did back in April when times were dark. A lot of listeners found… - 4 years ago

@betweenstation1: RT @declanlong: Derek Mahon, 1941-2020. - 4 years ago

@TheTLS: From 2006: An essay on the 'brief scattered lights' of Beckett's poems by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@betweenstation1: RT @josephfpoetry: Was Derek Mahon the leading Irish poet of his generation, because of his original, authentic and unique verse? - 4 years ago

@mattbucher: RT @guardian: Derek Mahon, Belfast-born giant of Irish poetry, dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@ChloeCumming: RT @TimKendall70: I have just heard that Derek Mahon has died. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on him. Those early volumes---before he set… - 4 years ago

@josephfpoetry: Was Derek Mahon the leading Irish poet of his generation, because of his original, authentic and unique verse? - 4 years ago

@KimBru49: RT @GylesB1: The great Irish poet Derek Mahon has died. He was a wonderful writer with a great heart and a unique voice. Here is the poem o… - 4 years ago

@jonnywhitaker: I urge you to watch @fergalkeane47 's tribute to Derek Mahon. It's a beautiful watch #BBCNewsTen - 4 years ago

@ElizabethWasse7: The profoundly intelligent, deeply rueful and dazzlingly talented Irish poet Derek Mahon died today. - 4 years ago

@starsandmud: RT @nemoloris: Glad to chip in with a few stray thoughts here. #DerekMahon - 4 years ago

@lizstephens18: RT @GylesB1: The great Irish poet Derek Mahon has died. He was a wonderful writer with a great heart and a unique voice. Here is the poem o… - 4 years ago

@geraldinesnape: RT @EleanorHooker_: He takes his leave of the earthly pantomime Quietly, knowing it is time to go. 'I am just going outside and may be some… - 4 years ago

@WHBooksBridport: Nice piece, with useful links by @stoneandthestar about Derek Mahon, who died today: - 4 years ago

@JoanneLimburg: RT @TimKendall70: I have just heard that Derek Mahon has died. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on him. Those early volumes---before he set… - 4 years ago

@rpcremins: Poem of the Week: "How to Live" by Derek Mahon. Carpe Diem. RIP, DM. - 4 years ago

@OSheaLaos: RT @TadhgDen: Derek Mahon died today. He wrote this poem in a house on Grattan Hill, just a few doors up from where I live. I’m reading it… - 4 years ago

@DBrarebooks: RIP Derek Mahon “Everything is going to be all right”. - 4 years ago

@cazmcclell: Sad news this evening about Derek Mahon, but grateful for this poem which has meant more than ever to us in recent… - 4 years ago

@MischiefPhoenix: RT @Tweet_Dec: I am now with child and the father is this video of Andrew Scott reading Derek Mahon’s poem Everything Is Going To Be Alrigh… - 4 years ago

@Lowrypalooza: RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@drreznicek: RT @rhetorician: so sorry to hear of the death of Derek Mahon - to me the most luminous and understated of that generation of poets. I love… - 4 years ago

@KevinShannon1: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@jboylan: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@NoonanJoe: RT @TadhgDen: Derek Mahon died today. He wrote this poem in a house on Grattan Hill, just a few doors up from where I live. I’m reading it… - 4 years ago

@GBClarkson: RT @MahonConf2014: Very sad news about Derek Mahon’s death. He’s one of those poets whose lines and images don’t just ‘come to mind’ now an… - 4 years ago

@101Mothergoose: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Michael Longley: Almost exactly 52 years ago I reviewed his first collection Night-Crossing in The Irish Times (Septembe… - 4 years ago

@HexagonHeptagon: RT @JessicaTraynor6: So sorry to hear about Derek Mahon. One of my favourites and my biggest inspirations as a writer. I go back to this po… - 4 years ago

@biltmoretweets: RT @Tweet_Dec: I am now with child and the father is this video of Andrew Scott reading Derek Mahon’s poem Everything Is Going To Be Alrigh… - 4 years ago

@tomdiemer: RT @DanMulhall: Derek Mahon, a poet whose brilliant work I often include in my daily #IrishPoetry tweets, has died aged 78. Condolences to… - 4 years ago

@FedeItaliano76: RT @JessicaTraynor6: So sorry to hear about Derek Mahon. One of my favourites and my biggest inspirations as a writer. I go back to this po… - 4 years ago

@beckhalliday: I remember reading this poem at the start of lockdown. A beautiful piece of writing. I also recorded the soundtrack… - 4 years ago

@molloy1916: RT @MartinDoyleIT: 1/ John Minihan's portraits of his friend and fellow artist, the poet Derek Mahon, who has died, aged 78. The first is a… - 4 years ago

@johnnersk: Derek Mahon 🍄 - 4 years ago

@TheManorSqare: RT @rtenews: At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in Ireland, Derek Mahon's poem 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' struck a chord with… - 4 years ago

@Cazkins26: RT @ACNIWriting: I'm not sure you could better this coming through your door on the day Derek Mahon died, and so close to Ciaran Carson's f… - 4 years ago

@OctPoetryMonth: RT @HeaneyCentre: “The sun rises in spite of everything / and the far cities are beautiful and bright.” - rest in peace Derek Mahon. ♥️ ht… - 4 years ago

@pacificraft: RT @r_vallen: A favourite poem of all time by Derek Mahon @PN_Review - 4 years ago

@wongo2: RT @VSBALLYMAHON: Saddened to learn of the passing of Derek Mahon, one of Ireland's most distinguished & highly regarded poets. 'The sun r… - 4 years ago

@EllenBruton: RT @GylesB1: The great Irish poet Derek Mahon has died. He was a wonderful writer with a great heart and a unique voice. Here is the poem o… - 4 years ago

@Rossielady: RT @MartinaCallanan: Derek Mahon’s poem “Everything Is Going To Be Alright” became - and remains - a source of solace to so many of us at t… - 4 years ago

@CormackAngela: RT @joeliveline: I put Derek Mahon’s epic poem “ A Disused Shed in County Wexford “ in a painting. Nothing does his brilliance justice. R.I… - 4 years ago

@asterixnet: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@slipperypawords: RIP Derek Mahon. Various tweets: don't state 'he has passed away.' We die. Death. The end. - 4 years ago

@TomMaguire1965: RT @at_ulster: A very sad day to hear of the passing of Derek Mahon. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this time. - 4 years ago

@EArchaeol: RT @EArchaeol: In memory of Irish poet, Derek Mahon (1941-2020) “Everything is going to be alright”, a distinctively Irish poem of consolat… - 4 years ago

@GallahersBlues: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@CoventGdnTube: RT @guardian: Derek Mahon, Belfast-born giant of Irish poetry, dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@CoventGdnTube: RT @poetryireland: An extraordinarily brilliant poet and a gifted and noble observer of our world - we remember poet Derek Mahon who has sa… - 4 years ago

@IrishLitTimes: RT @IrishLitTimes: The Irish Literary Times is deeply saddened to hear of the death of Derek Mahon - one of our greatest poets. #DerekMaho… - 4 years ago

@CoventGdnTube: RT @SeamusHeaneyNLI: "The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight wa… - 4 years ago

@AliceStainer: RT @neilsonandrew: Just gutted all day about Derek Mahon, whose singing line was as formative as it gets for me. At least I able to tell hi… - 4 years ago

@belfasthighsch1: BBC News - Belfast-born poet and former member of the school's English Department, Mr Derek Mahon, dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@barbmilne: RT @nemoloris: Glad to chip in with a few stray thoughts here. #DerekMahon - 4 years ago

@brookespoetry: RT @nemoloris: Glad to chip in with a few stray thoughts here. #DerekMahon - 4 years ago

@KevinHIpoet1967: RT @nemoloris: Glad to chip in with a few stray thoughts here. #DerekMahon - 4 years ago

@treesey: RT @Chris_Creegan: So sad to hear that Derek Mahon has died. This reading of his poem, Everything Is Going To Be Alright, by Andrew Scott,… - 4 years ago

@gregsweetnam: RT @the_rivermill: Dreadful news. A giant. The poets' poet . - 4 years ago

@davidrieff: RT @dubreviewbooks: We are saddened to learn of the death of the great poet Derek Mahon. RIP. - 4 years ago

@clare_poet: RIP Derek Mahon - what a legend. - 4 years ago

@GreeningPoet: RT @TheGalleryPress: We announce with deepest sorrow the death of Derek Mahon, master poet, pure artist. To his partner Sarah Iremonger and… - 4 years ago

@Letit1a: RT @RTEArena: Tune in to @RTERadio1 for @RTEArena at 7pm. The sad news came through today on the death of poet and playwright Derek Mahon.… - 4 years ago

@sundayp38585444: Derek Mahon Obituary - Death | Dead - Passed Away | Cause Of Death Derek Mahon Death - Dead: A great loss was made… - 4 years ago

@WilliamMcGowa15: RT @pipmcgowan: Derek Mahon, 1941-2020. Another passes to another place - 4 years ago

@CarbonCriminal: RT @GylesB1: The great Irish poet Derek Mahon has died. He was a wonderful writer with a great heart and a unique voice. Here is the poem o… - 4 years ago

@nemoloris: Glad to chip in with a few stray thoughts here. #DerekMahon - 4 years ago

@marfordhill: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Michael Longley: Almost exactly 52 years ago I reviewed his first collection Night-Crossing in The Irish Times (Septembe… - 4 years ago

@IanPChristie: RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@Timjam1: RT @GylesB1: The great Irish poet Derek Mahon has died. He was a wonderful writer with a great heart and a unique voice. Here is the poem o… - 4 years ago

@roisinmbrowne: RT @EnglishRachael: We don't often have poetry on @morningireland, but we did back in April when times were dark. A lot of listeners found… - 4 years ago

@mcshamrock: RT @GylesB1: The great Irish poet Derek Mahon has died. He was a wonderful writer with a great heart and a unique voice. Here is the poem o… - 4 years ago

@gra_246: RT @RTERadio1: We are sad to learn of the death of leading Irish poet Derek Mahon. Philip King from @SouthWind_Blows recites his words whic… - 4 years ago

@jallenrandolph: RT @PaulPerryWriter: And if in the distant Future someone Thinks he has once been me As I am today, Let him revise His insolent onto… - 4 years ago

@enricoreggiani2: Morto #DerekMahon, il poeta dell’“Andrà tutto bene” E gra… - 4 years ago

@jsturley_pope: Hearing the sad news of Derek Mahon, I am reminded of Dream Days...’that was my life’. Grateful to our inspiring En… - 4 years ago

@jointhecoo: Beautiful poem by Leontia Flynn for Ciaran Carson. Sadly, we’ll need another now. Rest in poetry, Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@2020Wordsworth: Derek Mahon’s ‘Heraclitus on Rivers’. A bracing reminder of human impermanence. - 4 years ago

@readanndix: RT @Tweet_Dec: I am now with child and the father is this video of Andrew Scott reading Derek Mahon’s poem Everything Is Going To Be Alrigh… - 4 years ago

@KennedyLoulou: RT @ACNIWriting: I'm not sure you could better this coming through your door on the day Derek Mahon died, and so close to Ciaran Carson's f… - 4 years ago

@natalieiwood: The Saturday Poem: Ecclesiastes by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@RedbrickedSlums: RT @SeamusHeaneyNLI: "The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight wa… - 4 years ago

@BKilmartinIT: ‘Witty, perceptive, provocative’: President leads tributes to poet Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@gerryco23: Derek Mahon, 1941-2020. 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' - 4 years ago

@MargretBollerup: RT @Tweet_Dec: I am now with child and the father is this video of Andrew Scott reading Derek Mahon’s poem Everything Is Going To Be Alrigh… - 4 years ago

@anagorria: RT @POETSorg: And I think of my son a dolphin in the Aegean, A sprite among sails knife-bright in a seasonal wind, And wish he were here… - 4 years ago

@tarlynch43: RT @SeamusHeaneyNLI: "The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight wa… - 4 years ago

@stoneandthestar: RT @POETSorg: And I think of my son a dolphin in the Aegean, A sprite among sails knife-bright in a seasonal wind, And wish he were here… - 4 years ago

@2020Wordsworth: RT @drgregorytate: Very sorry to hear about the death of Derek Mahon. I first read his poem 'Heraclitus on Rivers' near 20 years ago, and I… - 4 years ago

@akc_0123: Derek Mahon, Belfast-born giant of Irish poetry, dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@EmilyH71: Devastated to hear of the death of Derek Mahon, poet of rare genius. I did my MA thesis on Mahon, and chose him on… - 4 years ago

@avelas: RT @DanMulhall: Derek Mahon, a poet whose brilliant work I often include in my daily #IrishPoetry tweets, has died aged 78. Condolences to… - 4 years ago

@lilysimage: RT @EleanorHooker_: He takes his leave of the earthly pantomime Quietly, knowing it is time to go. 'I am just going outside and may be some… - 4 years ago

@Sanson538: Addio a Derek Mahon, il poeta dell'iconica "Andrà tutto bene" - 4 years ago

@beansi50: RT @AranSongs: “Singing the darkness into light”: suaimhneas síoraí ag Derek Mahon, “echo-prolonging poet!” Athfhoilsithe ag Breandán & Rua… - 4 years ago

@lindaosull88: Sad to hear of the passing of Derek Mahon, another great has left this world. I always loved this poem about his gr… - 4 years ago

@markdone1: RT @JonathanSEllis: Derek Mahon’s “Everything is going to be all right.” On the morning his own death is announced. - 4 years ago

@galway_library: RT @CuirtFestival: Very saddened to hear of the death of Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@barcalloreop60: RT @mccourtitaly: So terribly sad to hear that Derek Mahon has died. A huge loss to poetry and to Ireland. He wrote some of the greatest po… - 4 years ago

@my234Radio: Irish poet Derek Mahon dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@djokaymegamixer: Irish poet Derek Mahon dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@gilmaclean19: RT @ByLeavesWeLive: The SPL is very sorry to learn of the death of Derek Mahon The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are… - 4 years ago

@JohnathanSRoss1: RT @BBCNewsNI: The Belfast-born poet Derek Mahon has died aged 78 after a short illness. - 4 years ago

@Sayantani16: RT @laineydoyle: So sorry to hear of the death of Derek Mahon. The broadcast of this poem meant a lot to me. If you haven’t heard it yet, t… - 4 years ago

@slipperypawords: RT @nemoloris: ‘Plunging into the dark forever’: the first poem from Derek Mahon’s first book. His death is a shattering loss to Irish poet… - 4 years ago

@JMcNChicago: Derek Mahon, Belfast-born giant of Irish poetry, dies aged 78 | Poetry | The Guardian - 4 years ago

@ritch_nelson: RT @laineydoyle: So sorry to hear of the death of Derek Mahon. The broadcast of this poem meant a lot to me. If you haven’t heard it yet, t… - 4 years ago

@LCarley1: RT @sineadgleeson: What a poet Derek Mahon was. RIP. - 4 years ago

@bubby_gee: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Everything Is Going To Be All Right by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@artnoir13: BBC News - Belfast-born poet Derek Mahon dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@alycett1: RT @fergalkeane47: Derek Mahon, poet, is gone. What a terrible loss. He was a master whose words reached me at the darkest moments of life.… - 4 years ago

@MouraPoet: RIP - 4 years ago

@SharonMcAuley7: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@WarrenJJF: RIP Derek Mahon #DerekMahon - 4 years ago

@aisolougho: RT @AnnaCafolla: belfast's derek mahon has passed away, a sad loss. writing that will provide solace and comfort forever - 'the sun rises i… - 4 years ago

@corneliagracchi: RT @PoetryBookSoc: We're deeply saddened to hear reports that Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died aged 78. His poem 'Ever… - 4 years ago

@MuirisOConchuir: RT @NLIreland: A keenly felt loss 💔 Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78. - 4 years ago

@pradyu_singh: Sad waking up to the news that Derek Mahon has passed. One of the greats! "A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford" - the ver… - 4 years ago

@susanstewart20: RT @sineadgleeson: What a poet Derek Mahon was. RIP. - 4 years ago

@WebsterFrank: RT @MartinDoyleIT: President Michael D Higgins leads tribute to Derek Mahon RIP, along with lovely words from Colm Tóibín, John Minihan, Vo… - 4 years ago

@cebog1609: RIP Derek Mahon. We have lost a great poet today. - 4 years ago

@stoneandthestar: RT @EleanorHooker_: He takes his leave of the earthly pantomime Quietly, knowing it is time to go. 'I am just going outside and may be some… - 4 years ago

@fecochrane1: RT @PresidentIRL: "The loss of Derek Mahon, yet another artist gone from us in recent times, is like the falling of oak trees. We are left… - 4 years ago

@MaryColl16: RT @TheGalleryPress: We announce with deepest sorrow the death of Derek Mahon, master poet, pure artist. To his partner Sarah Iremonger and… - 4 years ago

@annaheverin: RT @irishmissionun: Very sad to hear of the passing of one Ireland’s great poets Derek Mahon A remarkable observer of our world during a l… - 4 years ago

@glintingframe: RT @JulianHoffman: "I have been working for years on a four-line poem about the life of a leaf; I think it might come out right this winter… - 4 years ago

@MrRonanRiordan: RT @EnglishRachael: We don't often have poetry on @morningireland, but we did back in April when times were dark. A lot of listeners found… - 4 years ago

@debbeepatton: RT @coaimpaul: A beautiful poem from Irish poet Derek Mahon who died earlier today: The sun rises in spite of everything and the far citie… - 4 years ago

@GeoffreyIRL: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

@faganistic: RT @r_vallen: A favourite poem of all time by Derek Mahon @PN_Review - 4 years ago

@ae_stallings: RT @TheTLS: An original poem from 1980 - 4 years ago

@jsaramc: RT @rtenews: Tributes have been paid to one of Ireland's leading poets, Derek Mahon, who has died at the age of 78 after a short illness |… - 4 years ago

@Aidan_S_T: RT @Chris_Creegan: So sad to hear that Derek Mahon has died. This reading of his poem, Everything Is Going To Be Alright, by Andrew Scott,… - 4 years ago

@AporeticD: RT @exitthelemming: Derek Mahon has died - 4 years ago

@nellree: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

@Yeralikesure: RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@Clonamery13: RT @WFUPress: "Out in the void and staring hard At the dim stone where we were reared, Great mother, now the gods have gone We place our fa… - 4 years ago

@lauramlennon: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@tayotony: RT @coaimpaul: A beautiful poem from Irish poet Derek Mahon who died earlier today: The sun rises in spite of everything and the far citie… - 4 years ago

@GeradaLavin: RT @Tweet_Dec: Derek Mahon died this morning aged 78. As lovely a tribute to his work here as any - 4 years ago

@UrsSakhi: RT @poetryireland: An extraordinarily brilliant poet and a gifted and noble observer of our world - we remember poet Derek Mahon who has sa… - 4 years ago

@Schwa_Music: RT @Dartford: Poetry isn’t just for one day but forever. Derek Mahon has died. He was and is a giant of poetry. Here is his seminal poem… - 4 years ago

@ladderwithap: RT @DanMulhall: Derek Mahon, a poet whose brilliant work I often include in my daily #IrishPoetry tweets, has died aged 78. Condolences to… - 4 years ago

@BallinamoreDeb1: RT @poetryireland: An extraordinarily brilliant poet and a gifted and noble observer of our world - we remember poet Derek Mahon who has sa… - 4 years ago

@AlbertMoon16: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Everything Is Going To Be All Right by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@JackTLadd: RT @guardian: Derek Mahon, Belfast-born giant of Irish poetry, dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@gilespitts: RIP Derek Mahon. And thank you for your words. - 4 years ago

@amy_m_couch: It's funny how some of the things we learn at school stay with us. We had to learn this Derek Mahon poem for our L… - 4 years ago

@WSJforum: ‘Witty, perceptive, provocative’: President leads tributes to poet Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@StrathclydeCW: RT @maclavertyB: What a loss. The great poet Derek Mahon has died. ‘A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford’ - is one of the greatest poems to come… - 4 years ago

@maireadsharry: RT @IrishTimes: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@AHHEresearch: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@paddykell: "There have been deaths, the pale flesh flaking Into the earth that nourished it; And nightmares, born of these and t… - 4 years ago

@JaneDesmarais: RT @MatthewOToole2: A huge loss. There is, fittingly, a riot of sunlight today in Derek Mahon's native Belfast. RIP - 4 years ago

@oldnorthroad: RT @CarolineBirdUK: ‘Now I hide in a lonely house/behind the sea’ - Derek Mahon’s classic poem (about Bruce Ismay’s troubled life after su… - 4 years ago

@Fishwithgazza: RT @pipmcgowan: Another day & occasion Twitter alights with memories of & love for another giant lost to the poetry world. Derek Mahon has… - 4 years ago

@anne3477: RT @brendancoyle99: Derek Mahon #RIP - 4 years ago

@JaneDesmarais: RT @KathrynGray: Derek Mahon has left us. My heart hurts. One of the true greats. - 4 years ago

@thejournal_ie: President Michael D Higgins has paid tribute to poet Derek Mahon, who has died after a short illness. - 4 years ago

@JaneDesmarais: RT @adrianmckinty: 1/3 the great Belfast poet Derek Mahon has died I loved his stuff & what a kind, beautiful spirit he was his father &… - 4 years ago

@johnstonglenn: Farewell Derek Mahon. Walking into eternity... A Country Kitchen (for Seamus Heaney) - 4 years ago

@_katherine_may_: RT @JulianHoffman: "I have been working for years on a four-line poem about the life of a leaf; I think it might come out right this winter… - 4 years ago

@JaneDesmarais: RT @TimKendall70: I have just heard that Derek Mahon has died. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on him. Those early volumes---before he set… - 4 years ago

@frpaddybyrne: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@JaneDesmarais: RT @rometostandrews: We contemplate at last shining windows, a future forbidden to no-one. Derek Mahon, 1941-2020. - 4 years ago

@JaneDesmarais: RT @WasThatThunder: Terrible news to hear Derek Mahon has died - I have very fond memories of coffee and cannoli with him in New York in th… - 4 years ago

@LGordon73: RT @Chris_Creegan: So sad to hear that Derek Mahon has died. This reading of his poem, Everything Is Going To Be Alright, by Andrew Scott,… - 4 years ago

@gubath: RT @LiamMcIlvanney: So many wonderful poems from Derek Mahon, but this is the one I keep going back to... #RIP #keepingthecoloursnew https:… - 4 years ago

@asiancha: RT @aasiain: Caramba. Un par de años compartí el cubículo de la universidad con un viejo irlandés, poeta, que veneraba a Derek Mahon. Cuand… - 4 years ago

@JaneDesmarais: RT @AnnaCafolla: belfast's derek mahon has passed away, a sad loss. writing that will provide solace and comfort forever - 'the sun rises i… - 4 years ago

@JaneDesmarais: RT @PadraigBelton: I have been working for years on a four-line poem about the life of a leaf; I think it might come out right this winter.… - 4 years ago

@RTERnaG: RT @CuinneDana: Is caillteanas mór do shaol liteartha na hÉireann é go bhfuil Derek Mahon imithe ar shlí na fírinne. Ar dheis Dé go raibh… - 4 years ago

@JaneDesmarais: RT @SeamusHeaneyNLI: "The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight wa… - 4 years ago

@AuroraBorealice: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@irishrhymespoet: RIP Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@gracepeacockni: RT @butsy78: Derek Mahon: "the faith doesn't die That in our time these things Will amaze the literate children In their non-sectarian scho… - 4 years ago

@Verde1957: RT @telescoper: Very sad to hear of the death of Derek Mahon... Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

@JaneDesmarais: RT @poetryireland: An extraordinarily brilliant poet and a gifted and noble observer of our world - we remember poet Derek Mahon who has sa… - 4 years ago

@Motthew_Rathery: RT @Tweet_Dec: Derek Mahon died this morning aged 78. As lovely a tribute to his work here as any - 4 years ago

@DyanaMoliNOT: RT @Tweet_Dec: I am now with child and the father is this video of Andrew Scott reading Derek Mahon’s poem Everything Is Going To Be Alrigh… - 4 years ago

@nofalseprophet: RT @AnnaCafolla: belfast's derek mahon has passed away, a sad loss. writing that will provide solace and comfort forever - 'the sun rises i… - 4 years ago

@dmacswee: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Everything Is Going To Be All Right by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@irishrhymespoet: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@OneNewsPage_UK: Belfast-born 'master poet' Derek Mahon dies aged 78: - 4 years ago

@luciebickerdike: RT @Tweet_Dec: Derek Mahon died this morning aged 78. As lovely a tribute to his work here as any - 4 years ago

@JaneDesmarais: RT @pipmcgowan: Derek Mahon, 1941-2020. Another passes to another place - 4 years ago

@notes_from_x: @JustAGalAndADog @danalevinpoet via - 4 years ago

@laurelvilla: RT @CormacKinsella: ... ⁦@PresidentIRL⁩ leads tributes to poet Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@SometimesThis1: RT @pipmcgowan: Another day & occasion Twitter alights with memories of & love for another giant lost to the poetry world. Derek Mahon has… - 4 years ago

@DreaTheReal: RT @AnnaCafolla: belfast's derek mahon has passed away, a sad loss. writing that will provide solace and comfort forever - 'the sun rises i… - 4 years ago

@HeaneyCentre: RT @Gail_McConnell_: Very sad to hear that Derek Mahon has left us. Reading and writing about his extraordinary body of work has been one o… - 4 years ago

@ByLeavesWeLive: RT @TimDee4: Derek Mahon has died. I live by his version of Nerval - ‘What do you know / Of the revolutionary theories advanced / By turnip… - 4 years ago

@laurelvilla: RT @USAinNI: We share sorrow in the passing of Belfast-born poet Derek Mahon. “The sun rises in spite of everything” - 4 years ago

@ByLeavesWeLive: RT @nemoloris: ‘Plunging into the dark forever’: the first poem from Derek Mahon’s first book. His death is a shattering loss to Irish poet… - 4 years ago

@ericabasnicki: Disappointed that I am only discovering Derek Mahon as the news of his death ripples through my timeline. I wonder… - 4 years ago

@adamdhanna: RT @CLDallat: He takes leave of the earthly pantomime Quietly, knowing it is time to go. 'I am just going outside and may be some time.' A… - 4 years ago

@GBClarkson: RT @TomDEvelyn: Derek Mahon, inimitable yet oh-so human, his voice equivocal and steady as the tide. RIP. - 4 years ago

@padrigmcg: RT @poetryireland: An extraordinarily brilliant poet and a gifted and noble observer of our world - we remember poet Derek Mahon who has sa… - 4 years ago

@DrDavidShaw1: RT @IrishInstitute: Very sorry to hear about the passing of Derek Mahon (1941-2020), one of Ireland's finest poets and translators. His sub… - 4 years ago

@DavySdpatterson: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

@williamxcollins: May Derek Mahon have peace and all the room in the world - 4 years ago

@hyperglobalist: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@mikenstuff: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@vaneharriet: RT @Tweet_Dec: Derek Mahon died this morning aged 78. As lovely a tribute to his work here as any - 4 years ago

@DavidGDonohue: RT @EnglishRachael: We don't often have poetry on @morningireland, but we did back in April when times were dark. A lot of listeners found… - 4 years ago

@Sherlocker2: RIP Derek Mahon. No mean Poet. Great memories of a night out in Dublin 1960. A great foursome with great pints! Our… - 4 years ago

@siobhanpharding: RT @fergalkeane47: Derek Mahon, poet, is gone. What a terrible loss. He was a master whose words reached me at the darkest moments of life.… - 4 years ago

@WanderingGaia: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@bodyfixmethod: RT @seamusheaneyest: Deeply saddened to hear of the death of Derek Mahon. An early friend of SH, fellow poet and a true master of his art.… - 4 years ago

@kylektl99: RT @Tweet_Dec: Derek Mahon died this morning aged 78. As lovely a tribute to his work here as any - 4 years ago

@hrvatskiPEN: RT @myetcetera: Derek Mahon, a foremost contemporary Irish poet, has died aged 78 in Cork last night after a short illness. His poem, "Ever… - 4 years ago

@rlourenco20141: RT @MartinaCallanan: Derek Mahon’s poem “Everything Is Going To Be Alright” became - and remains - a source of solace to so many of us at t… - 4 years ago

@IrishInstitute: Very sorry to hear about the passing of Derek Mahon (1941-2020), one of Ireland's finest poets and translators. His… - 4 years ago

@tcddublin: The loss of poet Derek Mahon is sharply felt at Trinity College Dublin. In this tribute to him, Professor of Englis… - 4 years ago

@shellakeypookey: RT @IrishTimesCultr: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

@Renee29643013: @adrianmckinty RIP Derek Mahon. Leaving pages inside soul. - 4 years ago

@plantingtheoar: RT @DanMulhall: From a favourite Derek #Mahon poem, Kinsale: .. but today our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun, our yachts tinkling… - 4 years ago

@FionaZerbst: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@sinead_una: Derek Mahon is one of my favourite poets, heartbroken to hear of his death :( - 4 years ago

@carrienicanri: RT @declanlong: Derek Mahon, 1941-2020. - 4 years ago

@conlethoverton: RT @PatrickCorrigan: 'Everything is going to be all right', read by Derek Mahon himself, via @rtenews - 4 years ago

@IrishStudiesQUB: RT @seamusheaneyest: Deeply saddened to hear of the death of Derek Mahon. An early friend of SH, fellow poet and a true master of his art.… - 4 years ago

@BillyFenton7: RT @poetryireland: An extraordinarily brilliant poet and a gifted and noble observer of our world - we remember poet Derek Mahon who has sa… - 4 years ago

@JaneDesmarais: RT @padrigmcg: Derek Mahon was a great poet, whether early-, mid- or late-. A translator of great range and curiosity, and a writer of beau… - 4 years ago

@GhostYouAreToMe: A fitting poem for #HozierPoetryFriday, upon the death of Irish poet Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@shellakeypookey: RT @MartinDoyleIT: A lovely essay by the late great Derek Mahon which we published in 2017: I chose the typewriter over the internet https:… - 4 years ago

@CatrionaSeth: RT @padrigmcg: Derek Mahon was a great poet, whether early-, mid- or late-. A translator of great range and curiosity, and a writer of beau… - 4 years ago

@missconroy: RT @IrelandEmbUSA: What a loss Derek Mahon's death is. But how much joy & solace he gave us. In this year, when we have lost so many leadin… - 4 years ago

@Evelyn74415780: RT @EnglishRachael: We don't often have poetry on @morningireland, but we did back in April when times were dark. A lot of listeners found… - 4 years ago

@PhilipJEMiller: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@JoanConcannon: RT @PoetryBookSoc: We're deeply saddened to hear reports that Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died aged 78. His poem 'Ever… - 4 years ago

@ArthurBeesley: RT @SouthWind_Blows: Derek Mahon. 1941- 2020. Ní bheidh a leitheid arís ann - 4 years ago

@simonedens: A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford by Derek Mahon ⁦@PoetryFound⁩. #DerekMahon #RIP - 4 years ago

@DeclanHyland: RIP Derek Mahon. A thousand mushrooms crowd to a keyhole </3 - 4 years ago

@Manhattanpeachy: RT @DanMulhall: Derek Mahon, a poet whose brilliant work I often include in my daily #IrishPoetry tweets, has died aged 78. Condolences to… - 4 years ago

@Audrey_Molloy: RT @MartinDoyleIT: President Michael D Higgins leads tribute to Derek Mahon RIP, along with lovely words from Colm Tóibín, John Minihan, Vo… - 4 years ago

@akennedysmith: RT @nemoloris: ‘Plunging into the dark forever’: the first poem from Derek Mahon’s first book. His death is a shattering loss to Irish poet… - 4 years ago

@CRFIrvine: RT @SeamusHeaneyNLI: "The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight wa… - 4 years ago

@Manhattanpeachy: RT @DanMulhall: From a favourite Derek #Mahon poem, Kinsale: .. but today our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun, our yachts tinkling… - 4 years ago

@CardColm: RT @nemoloris: ‘Plunging into the dark forever’: the first poem from Derek Mahon’s first book. His death is a shattering loss to Irish poet… - 4 years ago

@houchin_liz: RT @poetryireland: An extraordinarily brilliant poet and a gifted and noble observer of our world - we remember poet Derek Mahon who has sa… - 4 years ago

@margorice86: RT @Tweet_Dec: Derek Mahon died this morning aged 78. As lovely a tribute to his work here as any - 4 years ago

@SeamusHeaneyNLI: "The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight… - 4 years ago

@pirateirwin: RT @PadraigBelton: I have been working for years on a four-line poem about the life of a leaf; I think it might come out right this winter.… - 4 years ago

@AnnaMaliniak: RT @IrishTimesCultr: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

@guywjc: RT @TimKendall70: I have just heard that Derek Mahon has died. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on him. Those early volumes---before he set… - 4 years ago

@glasgowspike: RT @fergalkeane47: Derek Mahon, poet, is gone. What a terrible loss. He was a master whose words reached me at the darkest moments of life.… - 4 years ago

@Anouilh: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@AnnaMaliniak: RT @JonathanSEllis: Derek Mahon’s “Everything is going to be all right.” On the morning his own death is announced. - 4 years ago

@Gayn40: RT @brendancoyle99: Derek Mahon #RIP - 4 years ago

@JaneDesmarais: RT @MartinDoyleIT: President Michael D Higgins leads tribute to Derek Mahon RIP, along with lovely words from Colm Tóibín, John Minihan, Vo… - 4 years ago

@CormacKinsella: RT @nemoloris: ‘Plunging into the dark forever’: the first poem from Derek Mahon’s first book. His death is a shattering loss to Irish poet… - 4 years ago

@FrederickArmour: RT @manymanyplies: Sad to hear that Derek Mahon has died. The poem 'Courtyards in Delft' helped me think about Pieter de Hooch when I was w… - 4 years ago

@evmilo: RT @r_vallen: A favourite poem of all time by Derek Mahon @PN_Review - 4 years ago

@KayLovesToRead: RT @Tweet_Dec: Derek Mahon died this morning aged 78. As lovely a tribute to his work here as any - 4 years ago

@TheVelvetNap: RT @AdamSJFoulds: Sad to learn of the death of Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@angharadPJ: RT @sineadgleeson: What a poet Derek Mahon was. RIP. - 4 years ago

@bfchild66: Belfast-born poet Derek Mahon dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@KayLovesToRead: RT @Tweet_Dec: I am now with child and the father is this video of Andrew Scott reading Derek Mahon’s poem Everything Is Going To Be Alrigh… - 4 years ago

@RosieHorsnell: RT @Tweet_Dec: Derek Mahon died this morning aged 78. As lovely a tribute to his work here as any - 4 years ago

@swajones: RT @MartinDoyleIT: A very rare and revealing interview with Derek Mahon from 2010 by @RositaBoland - 4 years ago

@philmk10: RT @BrigidLaffan: Derek Mahon RIP a poem for our times - 4 years ago

@swajones: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

@Mark_Coughlan: RT @EnglishRachael: We don't often have poetry on @morningireland, but we did back in April when times were dark. A lot of listeners found… - 4 years ago

@HenriettaRI: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Everything Is Going To Be All Right by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@EileenHMurphy: RT @mccourtitaly: So terribly sad to hear that Derek Mahon has died. A huge loss to poetry and to Ireland. He wrote some of the greatest po… - 4 years ago

@TimKendall70: I have just heard that Derek Mahon has died. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on him. Those early volumes---before h… - 4 years ago

@somaticon: BBC News - Belfast-born poet Derek Mahon dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@kevinpbreslin: RT @MatthewOToole2: A huge loss. There is, fittingly, a riot of sunlight today in Derek Mahon's native Belfast. RIP - 4 years ago

@BarneyBardsley: RT @Dartford: Poetry isn’t just for one day but forever. Derek Mahon has died. He was and is a giant of poetry. Here is his seminal poem… - 4 years ago

@thegreatkellino: An hour of stupor and schadenfreude ends abruptly when I read that the great poet Derek Mahon has died 🖤 “Your ash… - 4 years ago

@charlesforsdick: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@SouthWind_Blows: Derek Mahon. 1941- 2020. Ní bheidh a leitheid arís ann - 4 years ago

@1Thru5AtFull: RT @CarolineBirdUK: Sad to hear that Derek Mahon has died. This is my favourite poem of his... - 4 years ago

@GayBowtie: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@DorotheevHooff: RT @rtenews: A poem: 'Everything is going to be all right' Amid the sad news and anxiety the Covid-19 crisis is causing us all, here are w… - 4 years ago

@MatthewP_B: RT @djmgaffneyw4: A quintessential Dublin literary epitaph for Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@clarebee5: RT @PoetryBookSoc: We're deeply saddened to hear reports that Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died aged 78. His poem 'Ever… - 4 years ago

@clairemcgrail11: RT @Tarn_nation: So sad to hear of the passing of Derek Mahon. One of my favourites from him. Homage. - 4 years ago

@vscoster: To mark the passing of the poet Derek Mahon here is himself reading 'Everything Is Going To Be All Right.'… - 4 years ago

@JBhattacharji: RT @MartinDoyleIT: A lovely essay by the late great Derek Mahon which we published in 2017: I chose the typewriter over the internet https:… - 4 years ago

@CamilleRalphs_: 'The typewriter fell silent; rod and gun Went out with me to prowl the watchful dawn.' - Derek Mahon, who died toda… - 4 years ago

@barrackview: RT @declanlong: Derek Mahon, 1941-2020. - 4 years ago

@ForLouth: RT @PatrickCorrigan: Rest in peace, Derek Mahon. Afterlives, a poem about going home to Belfast. - 4 years ago

@hibernowombat: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Everything Is Going To Be All Right by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@melissamaday: Derek Mahon was a wonderful poet and a kind, funny man. May he Rest In Peace. #DerekMahon #RIP - 4 years ago

@AnnJTerry: RT @mccourtitaly: Read this, from Derek Mahon: “And Olympia? After the chatter she is calm, her keys at rest, perhaps a little tired from a… - 4 years ago

@Eoin_Dineen: RT @jfcryan: Worth re-listening to- Philip King reads Derek Mahon's stirring poem "Everything is going to be alright...", words for our tim… - 4 years ago

@Winskillfull: RT @Tweet_Dec: I am now with child and the father is this video of Andrew Scott reading Derek Mahon’s poem Everything Is Going To Be Alrigh… - 4 years ago

@aniskimchi: RT @LRB: …the sun will find us when the worst is over, when everyone is in love, our children laugh at the gruff bloke snuffling in the epi… - 4 years ago

@Clnwlsh: RT @LRB: …the sun will find us when the worst is over, when everyone is in love, our children laugh at the gruff bloke snuffling in the epi… - 4 years ago

@Clnwlsh: RT @dedalusdenaries: It’s hard to say now how much Derek Mahon meant to me as a younger reader. His estranged, still attached, view of Bel… - 4 years ago

@EdwardFarrelly: First time out I was a torc of gold And wept tears of the sun. That was fun but they buried me In the earth two th… - 4 years ago

@r_debarra: RT @poetryjukebox: I am sad to hear this news : Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

@HughesPeg: RT @IrishWritersCtr: We'd like to extend our deepest sympathies to Derek Mahon's family and friends at this time. His influence on Irish po… - 4 years ago

@glenhswilson: RT @ArtsCouncilNI: The Arts Council has learned with great sadness of the death of the distinguished Northern Ireland poet, Derek Mahon, wh… - 4 years ago

@Quercus_UCC: RT @jfcryan: Worth re-listening to- Philip King reads Derek Mahon's stirring poem "Everything is going to be alright...", words for our tim… - 4 years ago

@CharlotteAnsel8: RT @PoetryBookSoc: We're deeply saddened to hear reports that Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died aged 78. His poem 'Ever… - 4 years ago

@Bandcloud: RIP Derek Mahon ‘Let the god not abandon us Who have come so far in darkness and in pain. We too had our lives to… - 4 years ago

@gregsweetnam: RT @RebTamas: ‘A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford’ is still one of the greatest poems I know. Goodbye Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@ShamblesAndFuss: RT @Tweet_Dec: Derek Mahon died this morning aged 78. As lovely a tribute to his work here as any - 4 years ago

@brightredmarker: RT @jfcryan: Sad news- Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - HIs poem Kinsale is one of my favourites "we contem… - 4 years ago

@maggyvaneijk: RT @Tweet_Dec: Derek Mahon died this morning aged 78. As lovely a tribute to his work here as any - 4 years ago

@djmgaffneyw4: A quintessential Dublin literary epitaph for Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@dedaluspress: RT @TheGalleryPress: We announce with deepest sorrow the death of Derek Mahon, master poet, pure artist. To his partner Sarah Iremonger and… - 4 years ago

@MaisieBar: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Everything Is Going To Be All Right by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@irlscotland: RT @ByLeavesWeLive: The SPL is very sorry to learn of the death of Derek Mahon The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are… - 4 years ago

@manymanyplies: Sad to hear that Derek Mahon has died. The poem 'Courtyards in Delft' helped me think about Pieter de Hooch when I… - 4 years ago

@MARYMCCARTHY001: Sincere condolences to the family of poet Derek Mahon on his passing and to his partner @sarahire from all of us at @CrawfordArtGall R.I.P - 4 years ago

@EBEUNI: RT @PatrickCorrigan: Rest in peace, Derek Mahon. Afterlives, a poem about going home to Belfast. - 4 years ago

@Martin_McNerney: RT @Tweet_Dec: Derek Mahon died this morning aged 78. As lovely a tribute to his work here as any - 4 years ago

@KillowenPSRostr: Rest easy Derek Mahon. Despite your musings on the transience of all things, your words will be treasured: Nobody s… - 4 years ago

@rvillon: RT @JonathanSEllis: Derek Mahon’s “Everything is going to be all right.” On the morning his own death is announced. - 4 years ago

@Culloty_Liz: Very sad to hear of the death of Derek Mahon, laoch ar làr. - 4 years ago

@j0s3fk: RT @mccourtitaly: Read this, from Derek Mahon: “And Olympia? After the chatter she is calm, her keys at rest, perhaps a little tired from a… - 4 years ago

@TomRegan: RT @fergalkeane47: Derek Mahon, poet, is gone. What a terrible loss. He was a master whose words reached me at the darkest moments of life.… - 4 years ago

@DrGMcGinty: RIP Derek Mahon and thank you for these words of comfort - 4 years ago

@gavclarke: RT @IrishLitSoc: Derek Mahon RIP. The bleakness of his The Hunt of Night seems fitting for our time and the hope that discovery of the numi… - 4 years ago

@JP_Biz: RT @DanMulhall: Derek Mahon, a poet whose brilliant work I often include in my daily #IrishPoetry tweets, has died aged 78. Condolences to… - 4 years ago

@CalumMacLeoid: RT @Tweet_Dec: Derek Mahon died this morning aged 78. As lovely a tribute to his work here as any - 4 years ago

@spot_lit_eu: RT @ByLeavesWeLive: The SPL is very sorry to learn of the death of Derek Mahon The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are… - 4 years ago

@maryodonnell03: RT @TheGalleryPress: We announce with deepest sorrow the death of Derek Mahon, master poet, pure artist. To his partner Sarah Iremonger and… - 4 years ago

@JHadiprojo: RT @Tweet_Dec: I am now with child and the father is this video of Andrew Scott reading Derek Mahon’s poem Everything Is Going To Be Alrigh… - 4 years ago

@gaffneyamy: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@deirdreannarose: RT @Tweet_Dec: I am now with child and the father is this video of Andrew Scott reading Derek Mahon’s poem Everything Is Going To Be Alrigh… - 4 years ago

@Crash_Edit: RT @Tweet_Dec: I am now with child and the father is this video of Andrew Scott reading Derek Mahon’s poem Everything Is Going To Be Alrigh… - 4 years ago

@spot_lit_eu: RT @DanMulhall: Derek Mahon, a poet whose brilliant work I often include in my daily #IrishPoetry tweets, has died aged 78. Condolences to… - 4 years ago

@CherylKilvingt1: RT @TheGalleryPress: We announce with deepest sorrow the death of Derek Mahon, master poet, pure artist. To his partner Sarah Iremonger and… - 4 years ago

@EoghanEvesson: RT @IrishTimesCultr: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

@dandelionmama: RT @Tweet_Dec: I am now with child and the father is this video of Andrew Scott reading Derek Mahon’s poem Everything Is Going To Be Alrigh… - 4 years ago

@semadivad: RT @Tweet_Dec: Derek Mahon died this morning aged 78. As lovely a tribute to his work here as any - 4 years ago

@NetaniaLim: RT @ByLeavesWeLive: The SPL is very sorry to learn of the death of Derek Mahon The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are… - 4 years ago

@KathyFoley: RT @LRB: …the sun will find us when the worst is over, when everyone is in love, our children laugh at the gruff bloke snuffling in the epi… - 4 years ago

@ByLeavesWeLive: RT @LRB: …the sun will find us when the worst is over, when everyone is in love, our children laugh at the gruff bloke snuffling in the epi… - 4 years ago

@EvanstonPrint: RT @Tweet_Dec: Derek Mahon died this morning aged 78. As lovely a tribute to his work here as any - 4 years ago

@supriyadhaliwal: RT @Stan_Ferguson: Derek Mahon RIP - 4 years ago

@jamescosullivan: Sad to hear of Derek Mahon's passing. These lines always stuck with me: "They are begging us, you see, in their… - 4 years ago

@mancreview: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@gavreilly: RT @EnglishRachael: We don't often have poetry on @morningireland, but we did back in April when times were dark. A lot of listeners found… - 4 years ago

@mancreview: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@justrena: RT @BikesNBukes: Just heard on the news that Derek Mahon has died, and remembered earlier this year when RTÉ played this recording of him r… - 4 years ago

@Gilleeece: RT @TheGalleryPress: We announce with deepest sorrow the death of Derek Mahon, master poet, pure artist. To his partner Sarah Iremonger and… - 4 years ago

@jamesglynn: RT @Tweet_Dec: Derek Mahon died this morning aged 78. As lovely a tribute to his work here as any - 4 years ago

@shinyshona: Every year that I read Kinsale by Derek Mahon the power in its simplicity and beauty increases, with new meanings r… - 4 years ago

@CormacKinsella: RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@CaoimhethaDiva: RT @Tweet_Dec: Derek Mahon died this morning aged 78. As lovely a tribute to his work here as any - 4 years ago

@gregsweetnam: RT @sineadgleeson: What a poet Derek Mahon was. RIP. - 4 years ago

@Rogerson_john: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@donald_i: RT @fergalkeane47: Derek Mahon, poet, is gone. What a terrible loss. He was a master whose words reached me at the darkest moments of life.… - 4 years ago

@write4wellbeing: RT @WasThatThunder: Terrible news to hear Derek Mahon has died - I have very fond memories of coffee and cannoli with him in New York in th… - 4 years ago

@JaneDesmarais: RT @TheGalleryPress: We announce with deepest sorrow the death of Derek Mahon, master poet, pure artist. To his partner Sarah Iremonger and… - 4 years ago

@ELarrissy: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@robert_mcmillen: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@Amanda_4d: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Everything Is Going To Be All Right by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@JaneDesmarais: RT @TheGalleryPress: #Galleryat50. Our final one, Episode Thirteen, features a writer new to Gallery, Grace Wilentz, Peter Fallon and the b… - 4 years ago

@Gail_McConnell_: RT @declanlong: Derek Mahon, 1941-2020. - 4 years ago

@itsmeciii: RT @elainefeeney16: So very sad to hear of the passing of Derek Mahon, one of the greatest poets ‘I am going home by sea For the first ti… - 4 years ago

@straycorkman: RT @TurboKestrel: Sad to hear about Derek Mahon passing. A fine poet x - 4 years ago

@EnglishRachael: We don't often have poetry on @morningireland, but we did back in April when times were dark. A lot of listeners fo… - 4 years ago

@lindseyclarke: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@ben_j_scho: RT @John_S_Phipps: ‘The sun rises in spite of everything And the far cities are beautiful and bright.’ RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@murrayrachel89: RT @lisa_g_dub: So sorry to hear the news about Derek Mahon...decant your wine - 4 years ago

@rams830: RT @JonathanSEllis: Derek Mahon’s “Everything is going to be all right.” On the morning his own death is announced. - 4 years ago

@randomirish: RT @sineadgleeson: What a poet Derek Mahon was. RIP. - 4 years ago

@wcorklitfest: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@Becspeare: RT @FieldDayCompany: Derek Mahon (1941-2020), RIP. An old fellow-traveller. Field Day is proud to have staged his play High Time in 1984. A… - 4 years ago

@Letit1a: You would think it was suddenly October as smoke flaps, the yachts tack violently and those caught in the downpour… - 4 years ago

@Andrew_S_W: RT @IrishTimesCultr: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

@dedalusdenaries: Sad news. This poem sang to me from the first. ‘I must be lying low in a room there, A strange child with a tast… - 4 years ago

@Alwaysagem: RT @irishexaminer: Irish poet Derek Mahon has died aged 78. The Irish Times reports that he died in #Cork last night following a short ill… - 4 years ago

@muttonkidneys: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@diroome: RT @exitthelemming: Derek Mahon has died - 4 years ago

@susannaalice: RT @HumanArchive: We're sad to hear of the passing of Derek Mahon. Here is his Light Music collection from 1977. - 4 years ago

@flaneurgan: RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@mountainstosea: We are saddened to hear of the death of Derek Mahon, laoch ar làr. - 4 years ago

@GroomB: RT @fergalkeane47: Derek Mahon, poet, is gone. What a terrible loss. He was a master whose words reached me at the darkest moments of life.… - 4 years ago

@carrienicanri: RT @JessicaTraynor6: So sorry to hear about Derek Mahon. One of my favourites and my biggest inspirations as a writer. I go back to this po… - 4 years ago

@Culloty_Liz: RT @elainefeeney16: So very sad to hear of the passing of Derek Mahon, one of the greatest poets ‘I am going home by sea For the first ti… - 4 years ago

@Aosdana: RT @NLIreland: A keenly felt loss 💔 Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78. - 4 years ago

@c1aranquinn: RT @IrishTimes: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@Culloty_Liz: RT @TheGalleryPress: We announce with deepest sorrow the death of Derek Mahon, master poet, pure artist. To his partner Sarah Iremonger and… - 4 years ago

@2MeterReview: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@davidmartinj: RT @MartinaCallanan: Derek Mahon’s poem “Everything Is Going To Be Alright” became - and remains - a source of solace to so many of us at t… - 4 years ago

@susanbruce409: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@freyjascat: RT @exitthelemming: I read Dog Days, Mahon’s beautiful short poem about getting older, on #PandemicPoems recently - 4 years ago

@se_lyall: RT @mariatjohnston: Bowled over by the deeply sad news of the death of poet Derek Mahon. Like so many others I revered him and his masterfu… - 4 years ago

@rosarii_mannion: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@stoneandthestar: RT @TheGalleryPress: We announce with deepest sorrow the death of Derek Mahon, master poet, pure artist. To his partner Sarah Iremonger and… - 4 years ago

@Clonamery13: RT @sheilakillian: @TheGalleryPress Oh, Rest in peace, Derek Mahon, and thank you for the poem of the pandemic - 4 years ago

@IrishStudiesRev: We are so sad to hear about the death of the remarkable Derek Mahon. We've published many wonderful articles on his… - 4 years ago

@WarrenJJF: RT @sineadgleeson: What a poet Derek Mahon was. RIP. - 4 years ago

@BLieutenancy: The Lord Lieutenant is greatly saddened to learn of the death of the distinguished Belfast born poet Derek Mahon. T… - 4 years ago

@Brnadh1: RT @sineadgleeson: What a poet Derek Mahon was. RIP. - 4 years ago

@AislinnOC: RT @sineadgleeson: What a poet Derek Mahon was. RIP. - 4 years ago

@PinkNereid: RT @MatthewOToole2: A huge loss. There is, fittingly, a riot of sunlight today in Derek Mahon's native Belfast. RIP - 4 years ago

@Irish_Cookbooks: RT @lisa_g_dub: So sorry to hear the news about Derek Mahon...decant your wine - 4 years ago

@AmyNolan95: RT @sineadgleeson: What a poet Derek Mahon was. RIP. - 4 years ago

@CormacKinsella: RT @TheGalleryPress: We announce with deepest sorrow the death of Derek Mahon, master poet, pure artist. To his partner Sarah Iremonger and… - 4 years ago

@ClareHayesBrady: RT @pipmcgowan: Another day & occasion Twitter alights with memories of & love for another giant lost to the poetry world. Derek Mahon has… - 4 years ago

@MelAndStuff_: RT @sineadgleeson: What a poet Derek Mahon was. RIP. - 4 years ago

@MaryBallinsheen: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@frances_dwyerr: Very sad to hear about Derek Mahon. He was my favourite poet we studied for the leaving, and even though I knew it… - 4 years ago

@nwbrux: Everything is Going to be All Right, by Derek Mahon (23 November 1941 - 1 October 2020) - 4 years ago

@GrainneBMurphy: RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@notsecretGarden: RT @mariatjohnston: Bowled over by the deeply sad news of the death of poet Derek Mahon. Like so many others I revered him and his masterfu… - 4 years ago

@dedaluspress: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@HansSchmuz: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Everything Is Going To Be All Right by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@accommodatingly: RT @JonathanSEllis: Derek Mahon’s “Everything is going to be all right.” On the morning his own death is announced. - 4 years ago

@JGreenAuthor: RT @BookJo: Achingly lovely poem and I am distraught that the reason I encountering it is not yesterday being Wotld Poetry Day, but rather… - 4 years ago

@EvePatten9: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@MaggieHumm1: #OnThisDay RIP Derek Mahon Everything is Going to be All Right - a brilliant reading - 4 years ago

@garrett_carr: "For this is how the centuries work / Two steps forward, one step back." One hopes. RIP Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@mariakneafsey: RT @PoetryBookSoc: We're deeply saddened to hear reports that Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died aged 78. His poem 'Ever… - 4 years ago

@queerbot69: RT @PoetryBookSoc: We're deeply saddened to hear reports that Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died aged 78. His poem 'Ever… - 4 years ago

@RedLineBookFest: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@poemsbylewis: RT @PoetryBookSoc: We're deeply saddened to hear reports that Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died aged 78. His poem 'Ever… - 4 years ago

@micklemccann: RT @Leeanne_Quinn_: “I am going home by sea For the first time in years. Somebody thumbs a guitar On the dark deck, while a gull Dreams at… - 4 years ago

@seanfcoleman: Awful to hear the news of Derek Mahon’s death, one of Ireland’s - the world’s - great poets. “The world, though, is… - 4 years ago

@cateatthemuseum: RT @John_S_Phipps: ‘The sun rises in spite of everything And the far cities are beautiful and bright.’ RIP Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@Yazzy_321: RT @exitthelemming: I read Dog Days, Mahon’s beautiful short poem about getting older, on #PandemicPoems recently - 4 years ago

@teresa_lenane: RT @fergalkeane47: Derek Mahon, poet, is gone. What a terrible loss. He was a master whose words reached me at the darkest moments of life.… - 4 years ago

@thehound2: RT @IrishTimesCultr: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

@ProfMHWhitworth: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@JanCherryJovi: RT @exitthelemming: I read Dog Days, Mahon’s beautiful short poem about getting older, on #PandemicPoems recently - 4 years ago

@thememoryband: RT @twilark: Beyond, a swoop of mountain where you heard, Disconsolate in the haze, a single blackbird. Derek Mahon RIP - 4 years ago

@allanjenkins21: RT @exitthelemming: I read Dog Days, Mahon’s beautiful short poem about getting older, on #PandemicPoems recently - 4 years ago

@PoetryBookSoc: We're deeply saddened to hear reports that Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died aged 78. His poem… - 4 years ago

@Arched_Roadway: RT @JonathanSEllis: Derek Mahon’s “Everything is going to be all right.” On the morning his own death is announced. - 4 years ago

@KristeKline: RT @IrishTimes: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@MerrillHayes7: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@cutszee: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@kat2171: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@GerryMcNally9: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Everything Is Going To Be All Right by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@GDRNorminton: RT @IrishTimesCultr: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

@JackGQuin: RT @mariatjohnston: Bowled over by the deeply sad news of the death of poet Derek Mahon. Like so many others I revered him and his masterfu… - 4 years ago

@joelyg: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@brianlavery59: RT @LiamMcIlvanney: Derek Mahon has died. If you’ve never read him, do yourself a favour and order this book. You will be reading it with… - 4 years ago

@philosophylinks: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@Jamspud: RT @IrishTimes: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@Audrey_Molloy: RT @TheGalleryPress: We announce with deepest sorrow the death of Derek Mahon, master poet, pure artist. To his partner Sarah Iremonger and… - 4 years ago

@johnhaffenden: RT @JonathanSEllis: Derek Mahon’s “Everything is going to be all right.” On the morning his own death is announced. - 4 years ago

@JulieMullaney3: 'They have learnt patience and silence/Listening to the rooks querulous in the high wood.' RIP Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@Nigellicus: RT @IrishTimesCultr: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

@RebTamas: ‘A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford’ is still one of the greatest poems know. Goodbye Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@robbeorn: RT @TheGalleryPress: We announce with deepest sorrow the death of Derek Mahon, master poet, pure artist. To his partner Sarah Iremonger and… - 4 years ago

@Jamspud: RT @irish_news: Belfast-born poet Derek Mahon dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@BookJo: Achingly lovely poem and I am distraught that the reason I encountering it is not yesterday being Wotld Poetry Day,… - 4 years ago

@katymilligan: RT @lisa_g_dub: So sorry to hear the news about Derek Mahon...decant your wine - 4 years ago

@rhiannonlucyc: RT @exitthelemming: I read Dog Days, Mahon’s beautiful short poem about getting older, on #PandemicPoems recently - 4 years ago

@foreverantrim: Ah, sorry to learn that writer, poet, Derek Mahon passed away. Wasn't I in Kinsale recently with the vain, tentativ… - 4 years ago

@stefmowords: RT @MatthewP_B: My favourite Derek Mahon poem. Tis strong stuff. Read out loud for maximum effect. - 4 years ago

@Chris_Creegan: So sad to hear that Derek Mahon has died. This reading of his poem, Everything Is Going To Be Alright, by Andrew Sc… - 4 years ago

@marybrickley6: RT @OrrCollins: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

@ScottFlashheart: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@Evelyn74415780: RT @fergalkeane47: Derek Mahon, poet, is gone. What a terrible loss. He was a master whose words reached me at the darkest moments of life.… - 4 years ago

@PenFielding: R.I.P. Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@aighne_kearney: RT @MatthewP_B: My favourite Derek Mahon poem. Tis strong stuff. Read out loud for maximum effect. - 4 years ago

@elissafield: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died #poem #poetry #Mahon #Ireland - 4 years ago

@CullenMarieG: RT @NLIreland: A keenly felt loss 💔 Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78. - 4 years ago

@BFinham: RT @mccourtitaly: Derek Mahon's Everything Is Going To Be All Right helped a lot of people through troubles, especially this year. Poetry p… - 4 years ago

@MSClementsbook: RT @exitthelemming: Derek Mahon has died - 4 years ago

@AGildedEye: RT @exitthelemming: I read Dog Days, Mahon’s beautiful short poem about getting older, on #PandemicPoems recently - 4 years ago

@MartinaCallanan: Derek Mahon’s poem “Everything Is Going To Be Alright” became - and remains - a source of solace to so many of us a… - 4 years ago

@Carriebracken: RIP Derek Mahon. Here's the first stanza of his poem 'Achill' published in Out of the Marvellous 2013 - 4 years ago

@b_mmcbride: RT @JonathanSEllis: Derek Mahon’s “Everything is going to be all right.” On the morning his own death is announced. - 4 years ago

@CKullmannAuthor: "and the far cities are beautiful and bright" RIP Derek Mahon. May you travel there today. - 4 years ago

@ACNIWriting: RT @HumanArchive: We're sad to hear of the passing of Derek Mahon. Here is his Light Music collection from 1977. - 4 years ago

@jonmillington: RT @exitthelemming: Derek Mahon has died - 4 years ago

@roryosul: RT @IrishTimesCultr: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

@yipenyapen: RT @NLIreland: A keenly felt loss 💔 Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78. - 4 years ago

@VallescuraRule: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon RIP, one of Ireland's finest poets. His beautiful poem, Everything Is Going To Be All Right, captured the na… - 4 years ago

@OlwenCD: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@VMeth: RT @mandy_mcauley: The brilliant Belfast poet Derek Mahon dies at 78 - 4 years ago

@MidnightDBA: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Everything Is Going To Be All Right by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@OliveBridget: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon RIP, one of Ireland's finest poets. His beautiful poem, Everything Is Going To Be All Right, captured the na… - 4 years ago

@McCallum_Smith: RT @CormacKinsella: RIP Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

@EKSwitaj: RT @mccourtitaly: So terribly sad to hear that Derek Mahon has died. A huge loss to poetry and to Ireland. He wrote some of the greatest po… - 4 years ago

@WHBooksBridport: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@myetcetera: RT @Irlandezinha: Derek Mahon. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. For me, at the time, his words spoke about continuity. Despite, what may come… - 4 years ago

@shannybasar: RT @sineadgleeson: What a poet Derek Mahon was. RIP. - 4 years ago

@JimHelling: RT @fergalkeane47: The Irish Times report of his death - 4 years ago

@AnneMag99: RT @exitthelemming: Derek Mahon has died - 4 years ago

@mccourtitaly: Derek Mahon's Everything Is Going To Be All Right helped a lot of people through troubles, especially this year. Po… - 4 years ago

@McCallum_Smith: RT @sineadgleeson: What a poet Derek Mahon was. RIP. - 4 years ago

@alisheff: RT @fergalkeane47: Derek Mahon, poet, is gone. What a terrible loss. He was a master whose words reached me at the darkest moments of life.… - 4 years ago

@simon_lindsell: RT @exitthelemming: Derek Mahon has died - 4 years ago

@JohnJBaucher: RT @declanlong: Derek Mahon, 1941-2020. - 4 years ago

@jane__bradley: RT @fergalkeane47: Derek Mahon, poet, is gone. What a terrible loss. He was a master whose words reached me at the darkest moments of life.… - 4 years ago

@chriscleave: RT @fergalkeane47: Derek Mahon, poet, is gone. What a terrible loss. He was a master whose words reached me at the darkest moments of life.… - 4 years ago

@iralightman: RT @eileenchongpoet: ‘What middle-class shits we are To imagine for one second That our privileged ideals Are divine wisdom, and the dim Fo… - 4 years ago

@M_OToole: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Everything Is Going To Be All Right by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@robbsmithtricks: Irish poet Derek Mahon has passed away. RIP - 4 years ago

@JDMenton: RT @dubreviewbooks: We are saddened to learn of the death of the great poet Derek Mahon. RIP. - 4 years ago

@iralightman: RT @louis_macneice: Very sorry to hear of the passing of Derek Mahon today, a real blessing to Irish poetry in his life, and a loss to it i… - 4 years ago

@AnnTalpey: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Everything Is Going To Be All Right by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@PaddyMcGovern3: RT @IrishTimes: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@CSPilsbury: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@BoMandeville: RT @louis_macneice: Very sorry to hear of the passing of Derek Mahon today, a real blessing to Irish poetry in his life, and a loss to it i… - 4 years ago

@oliviagadd: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@theriversideUCC: We are saddened to note the passing of poet Derek Mahon, a #GreatBookUCC contributor and we remember this quote: 'L… - 4 years ago

@wouden_van: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

@exitthelemming: Derek Mahon has died - 4 years ago

@KKDesigns8: RT @JonathanSEllis: Derek Mahon’s “Everything is going to be all right.” On the morning his own death is announced. - 4 years ago

@DiSpeirs: RT @fergalkeane47: Derek Mahon, poet, is gone. What a terrible loss. He was a master whose words reached me at the darkest moments of life.… - 4 years ago

@Megankstack: RT @fergalkeane47: Derek Mahon, poet, is gone. What a terrible loss. He was a master whose words reached me at the darkest moments of life.… - 4 years ago

@i_dream_myself: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Everything Is Going To Be All Right by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@KayeMac04: RT @sheilakillian: @TheGalleryPress Oh, Rest in peace, Derek Mahon, and thank you for the poem of the pandemic - 4 years ago

@SadbhKellett: RT @sineadgleeson: What a poet Derek Mahon was. RIP. - 4 years ago

@most_illegible: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@fergalkeane47: The Irish Times report of his death - 4 years ago

@CMacCoille: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@Malcolm_Ridley: RT @IrishTimesCultr: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

@NewIslandBooks: RT @TheGalleryPress: We announce with deepest sorrow the death of Derek Mahon, master poet, pure artist. To his partner Sarah Iremonger and… - 4 years ago

@DoodyEleanor: RT @fergalkeane47: Derek Mahon, poet, is gone. What a terrible loss. He was a master whose words reached me at the darkest moments of life.… - 4 years ago

@klillington: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@chiefhairyman: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@JillianvT: RT @fergalkeane47: Derek Mahon, poet, is gone. What a terrible loss. He was a master whose words reached me at the darkest moments of life.… - 4 years ago

@shannybasar: RT @fergalkeane47: Derek Mahon, poet, is gone. What a terrible loss. He was a master whose words reached me at the darkest moments of life.… - 4 years ago

@pipmcgowan: Derek Mahon, 1941-2020. Another passes to another place - 4 years ago

@alicherryanders: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@eoinmc73: Very sad news. Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 via @IrishTimes - 4 years ago

@DaDearga: RT @fergalkeane47: Derek Mahon, poet, is gone. What a terrible loss. He was a master whose words reached me at the darkest moments of life.… - 4 years ago

@JessicaTraynor6: So sorry to hear about Derek Mahon. One of my favourites and my biggest inspirations as a writer. I go back to this… - 4 years ago

@EimhearONeill: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@geraldinesnape: RT @louis_macneice: Very sorry to hear of the passing of Derek Mahon today, a real blessing to Irish poetry in his life, and a loss to it i… - 4 years ago

@IanBuckley4: I have been working for years on a four-line poem about the life of a leaf; I think it might come out right this wi… - 4 years ago

@y_gwenda: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@qualann: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Everything Is Going To Be All Right by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@Alirich0: RT @JonathanSEllis: Derek Mahon’s “Everything is going to be all right.” On the morning his own death is announced. - 4 years ago

@RoseMargaux1: RT @Muinchille: It can never be a good day when a poet dies. RIP Derek Mahon. - 4 years ago

@fergalkeane47: Derek Mahon, poet, is gone. What a terrible loss. He was a master whose words reached me at the darkest moments of… - 4 years ago

@DilworthSimon: RT @IrishTimesCultr: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78 - 4 years ago

@cheer14361: RT @IrishTimes: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@RTEdoconone: RT @LyricFeature: In 2001 Lorelei Harris made this exquisite radio version of one of #DerekMahon's poems with readings from Stephen Rea and… - 4 years ago

@EATeVault: RT @declanlong: Derek Mahon, 1941-2020. - 4 years ago

@deadpeoplecom: Derek Mahon is no longer with us - #DerekMahon #Derek #Mahon #rip - 4 years ago

@t1mothyallen: Very sorry to learn of the death of Derek Mahon, Belfast born, #Kinsale resident, poet of the forgotten places and… - 4 years ago

@paulanthonywils: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@SanSip: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Everything Is Going To Be All Right by Derek Mahon - 4 years ago

@patjohnfarmer26: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@weareforthearts: Listen to Jonjo O’Neill reading Mahon’s A Disused Shed in County Wexford, which has been called “the finest single… - 4 years ago

@LurigDramaCDall: RT @NLIreland: A keenly felt loss 💔 Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, has died, aged 78. - 4 years ago

@WordSparks: RT @WasThatThunder: Terrible news to hear Derek Mahon has died - I have very fond memories of coffee and cannoli with him in New York in th… - 4 years ago

@DympnaMallon: RT @mandy_mcauley: The brilliant Belfast poet Derek Mahon dies at 78 - 4 years ago

@Dartford: Poetry isn’t just for one day but forever. Derek Mahon has died. He was, and is a giant of poetry. Here is his sem… - 4 years ago

@LurigDramaCDall: RT @sineadgleeson: What a poet Derek Mahon was. RIP. - 4 years ago

@AnnaPetrillo10: RT @IrishTimes: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@RadioFreeBear: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@LaoisLibraries: RT @IrishTimes: Derek Mahon, one of Ireland’s leading poets, dies aged 78 - 4 years ago

@CRFIrvine: RT @CelizMurray: 'Afterlives' by Derek Mahon RIP Excerpt via @PoetryFound at - 4 years ago

@GBClarkson: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@JodyWeitzman: RT @MatthewOToole2: A huge loss. There is, fittingly, a riot of sunlight today in Derek Mahon's native Belfast. RIP - 4 years ago

@alldaylongjeff: Sorry to hear of Derek Mahon’s passing. RIP - 4 years ago

@CRFIrvine: RT @MatthewOToole2: A huge loss. There is, fittingly, a riot of sunlight today in Derek Mahon's native Belfast. RIP - 4 years ago

@MuinbeoArchives: RT @poetryireland: We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of poet Derek Mahon. His influence in the Irish poetry community, literary… - 4 years ago

@blackcatbutton: RT @MartinDoyleIT: Derek Mahon has died, aged 78. RIP - 4 years ago

@LiamMcIlvanney: So many wonderful poems from Derek Mahon, but this is the one I keep going back to... #RIP #keepingthecoloursnew - 4 years ago

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