An Interview in February 2014

I found this documentary on Youtube made by Rebecca Halliday.  It shows Derek Mahon retracing his steps from childhood along Salisbury Avenue on the Antrim Road to his days at the The Royal Belfast Academical Institute in Belfast.  He then travels to Trinity College, to relive his undergraduate days and then to London, where he lived for fifteen years.  Finally Derek travels to 45 Fitzwilliam Square in Dublin, where he was very content for many years, before finally making Kinsale his home at The Grove.

It is a wonderful documentary discussing his influences such as Coleridge, where Derek visits where Coleridge lived in London, as well as Esra Pound, who lived at 16 Kensington Church Walk, a short distance from Derek's Observatory Gardens home in Kensington.