A belated encounter with the great Derek Mahon in Kinsale... For Sunday Miscellany, listen to Meeting the Poet, by Oliver Sears above.
Kinsale', my late stepfather warned of the west Cork seaside town that became his retirement home, 'makes an old man young and a young man old. Visit but do not live there.’ The young often do the opposite of what their elders advise...
This essay appeared on the programme of November 30th - listen back here
