Derek Mahon

Derek Mahon
	; (2010)
Beathaisnéis
Breith	23 Samhain 1941; Béal Feirste, Northern Ireland
Bás	1 Deireadh Fómhair 2020 ; 78 bliana d'aois; Corcaigh, Éire
Siocair bháis	Bás nádúrtha (Galar)
Faisnéis phearsanta
Scoil a d'fhreastail sé/sí	Ollscoil Pháras ; Foras Ollscolach Bhéal Feirste
Gníomhaíocht
Gairm	scríbhneoir scripte, aistritheoir, file, scríbhneoir
Ball de	Aosdána
Seánra	Filíocht
Teangacha	Béarla
Saothar
Suíomh a chartlainne	Leabharlann Lámhscríbhinní, Cartlainne, agus Leabhar Uathúil Stuart A. Rose ; University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives (en) [ SC350] ;
	Gradam a fuarthas (2019) Gradam Poetry Now; (2009) Gradam Poetry Now; (2007) Duais David Cohen; (2006) Gradam Poetry Now; (1990) Lannan Literary Awards (en) ; (1965) Duais Eric Gregory; Comhaltacht Guggenheim; Gradam Cholmondeley; AWB Vincent Literary Award (en) ;

File Éireannach ab ea Derek Mahon (23 Samhain, 1941 - 1 Deireadh Fómhair 2020). Rugadh i mBéal Feirste é, Tuaisceart na hÉireann.^[1]

Beathaisnéis

Saolaíodh é mar an pháiste aonar ag tuistí oibre-aicme Aontachtóireach. Shaothraigh a athair agus a sheanathair ag "Harland and Wolffe" agus d'oibrigh a mháthair ag muileann lín áitiúla. Le linn a chuid pháisteacht, éilíonn sé gur thaithnaigh leis a bheith in a aonar ag aisling, go compordach in a chomhluadar fhéin agus gan bac don na rudaí mórthimpeall air.

Bhí spéis aige sa litríocht ó aois óg, agus d'fhreastail sé ar Bhunscoil Skegoneil agus i ndiaidh sé sin, ar an Institiúid Acadaimh Ríogach Béal Feirste. Ag an dara háit, chas sé le mic léinn eile a raibh an dúl chéine sa litríocht agus an fhilíocht acu fosta. Léirthigh an scoil irisleabhar in a raibh roinnt den luath-filíocht de chuid Mac Mathúna foilsithe. Rinne sé staidéar tríú leibhéal i gColáiste na Tríonóide, áit a bhfuair sé phost mar eagarthóir an nuachtlitir Icarus. Rinne sé cairdeas buaine le filí clúiteacha ansin mar Michael Longley, Eavan Boland agus Brendan Kenelly. Tháinig sé in inmhe mar fhile. D'fhág sé Coláiste na Tríonóide i 1965 chun dul ag staidéar sa Sorbonne i bPáras.

I ndiaidh fhágáil an tSorbonne i 1966 shaothraigh sé a bhealach fríd Ceanada agus Mheireceá. D'fhoilsigh sé a chéad bhailiúcháin filíocht i 1967 den tidil, Night Crossing. Mhúin sé i scoil i mBaile Átha Cliath agus d'oibrigh sé i Londain mar iriseoir saoire. Tá sé ina chónaí i gCionn Sáile, Contae Chorcaí faoi láthair. Ar an 23ú de Mhí Márta, 2007, bhronnú an gradam David Cohen air mar gheall ar a chuid litríocht.

Stíl

Léannta go cruinn agus le tuiscint ghéar ar thraidisiún na litríochta, tháinig Mac Mathúna amach as scleip Thuaisceart Éireann le glór foirmeálta, measartha agus go fiú srianta sa bhfilíocht. I ré véarsa saoir, scríobh sé go minic i bhfoirmeacha oidhreachta, le leagan fairsinge de pheintiméadar iambach curtha i bhfeidhm aige, cosúil leis an véarsa 'Sprung Foot' le Gerard Manley Hopkins. Bíonn rím ina chuid filíochta. Go fiú ní bhíonn an tírdhreach Éireannach riamh rófhada ón stíl chlasaiceach, cuir i gcás an dán 'Achill':

Croagh Patrick towers like Naxos over the water

And I think of my daughter at work on her difficult art

And wish she were with me now between thrush and plover,

Wild thyme and sea-thrift, to lift the weight from my heart.

Bhí tionchar mór aige ar go leor leor filí Éireannacha clúiteacha mar shampla Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, agus Éamonn Grennan.

Saothar

Filíocht

1965: Twelve Poems. Festival Publications, Belfast
1968: Night-Crossing. Oxford University Press
1970: Ecclesiastes Phoenix Pamphlet Poets
1970: Beyond Howth Head. Dolmen Press
1972: Lives. Oxford University Press
1975: The Snow Party. Oxford University Press
1977: In Their Element. Arts Council of Northern Ireland
1979: Poems 1962-1978. Oxford University Press
1981: Courtyards in Delft. Gallery Press
1982: The Hunt By Night. Oxford University Press
1985: Antarctica. Gallery Press
1990: The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush: Selected Poems. Gallery Press
1991: Selected Poems. Viking
1992: The Yaddo Letter. Gallery Press
1995: The Hudson Letter. Gallery Press
1997: The Yellow Book. Gallery Press
1999: Collected Poems. Gallery Press
2001: Selected Poems. Penguin
2005: Harbour Lights. Gallery Press (winner of the 2006 Irish Times Poetry Now Award)
2007: Somewhere the Wave. Gallery Press
2008: Life on Earth. Gallery Press (shortlisted for the 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize; winner of the 2009 Irish Times Poetry Now Award)
2010: An Autumn Wind. Gallery Press

Aistriúcháin

1982: The Chimeras (a version of Les Chimères, by Nerval), Gallery Press
1985: High Time (a version of Molière's A School for Husbands), Gallery Press
1988: The Selected Poems of Philippe Jaccottet, Viking, 1988.
1996: The Bacchae of Euripedes, and Racine's Phaedra, Gallery Press
2002: Birds (a version of Oiseaux, by Saint-John Perse), Gallery Press
2004: Cyrano de Bergerac. (A version of the play by Edmond Rostand), Gallery Press
2005: Oedipus (A conflation of Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus), Gallery Press
2006: Adaptations (A collection of versions, rather than translations proper, from poets such as Pasolini, Juvenal, Bertolt Brecht, Paul Valéry, Baudelaire, Rilke and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill), Gallery Press

Prós

1996: Journalism: selected prose, 1970-1995. Ed. Terence Brown. Gallery Press

Foinsí

This is Poetry 2007 (Used as an Irish Leaving Certificate Poetry Book)
This is Poetry 2008 (Used as an Irish Leaving Certificate Poetry Book)
Poetry Now 2008 - Ordinary or Higher Level (Used as an Irish Leaving Certificate Poetry Book)
Poetry Now 2009 - Ordinary or Higher Level (Used as an Irish Leaving Certificate Poetry Book)

Léitheoireacht Bhreise

Allen Randolph, Jody. Derek Mahon: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Irish University Review: Special Issue: Derek Mahon 24.1 (Spring/Summer 1994): 131-156.
Haughton, Hugh. The Poetry of Derek Mahon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Tagairtí

↑ Bowman: Sunday: 8.30 (18 DF 2020). "Éist leis ar RTÉ" (en). Bowman: Sunday: 8.30. Dáta rochtana: 2020-10-18.

[1] Bowman: Sunday: 8.30 (18 DF 2020). "Éist leis ar RTÉ" (en). Bowman: Sunday: 8.30. Dáta rochtana: 2020-10-18.

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