The influential Irish poet Eavan Boland died on Monday, at the age of seventy-five. Her poems, which have appeared in The New Yorker for over thirty years, limn the legacies of history, in her home ...

In her inaugural address as Ireland’s first female head of state, in December 1990, Mary Robinson declared that “as a woman I want the women who have felt themselves outside history to be written back ...

Fable has it that Guy de Maupassant lunched every day in the Eiffel Tower restaurant as it was the only place in Paris he did not have to see it. Irish writers have a similar fixation with place.