Most recently in The Lost Land and most univocally in In a Time of Violence (1994), Boland has long won admiration for verse that combines Irish postcolonial experience and Irish politics with an ...

Nowadays it's hard to know what to make of a feminist poet. Most college students are women. Creative writing programs have become bohemian sororities that admit token men. Women dominate the arts. It ...

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 ...

Colm Tóibín introduces Boland: Journey of a Poet, a new online production from Druid Theatre exploring the life of poet Eavan Boland through her own poetry and autobiographical prose... Theatre • 21 ...

“Eavan Boland revolutionised Irish writing”. I wrote these five words on the day she died. Two years later I am even more convinced of this truth. As I am ever more sure of the necessity of, and our ...

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 ...

Eavan Boland, one of Ireland’s most distinguished poets, has died suddenly at the age of 75. She suffered a major stroke at her home in Dundrum, Co Dublin, this morning and was taken to hospital, ...

Colm Tóibín introduces Boland: Journey of a Poet, a new online production from Druid Theatre exploring the life of poet Eavan Boland through her own poetry and autobiographical prose, edited by Tóibín ...

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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.

Trinity College Dublin may have been founded by Queen Elizabeth I, but for over 400 years every building on the prestigious university campus has been named after a man. Until now. This month, an ...

Still a student when her first book was published, Eavan Boland has grown into one of Ireland’s most prominent poets. Her poems often examine the lives of women, looking at larger cultural issues ...