Ireland; Eavan Boland, Pillar of Irish Poetry: 1944–2020 She helped redefine the literary canon to include women’s voices and those on the margins. Margaret Spillane May 6, 2020.

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 ...

Eavan Boland, who expanded the voice of Irish poetry by consciously writing from a female point of view, putting the lives and experiences of women at the center of her poems, died April 27 at her ...

Eavan Boland, who began publishing poetry in the mid-1960s in Ireland and soon became one of the most prominent women in the male-dominated literary landscape of that country, died on Monday at ...

More so than other poets who write in the English language, it seems, Irish poets can’t stop writing about their country. And, judging by Eavan Boland’s keenly felt evocations of it, it… ...

NEWARK — As a young poet in Ireland, Eavan Boland struggled to find her place within a rich tradition dominated by strong male voices. She wanted to write about children, marriage and her ...

Trinity College Dublin names its Brutalist library after Irish female poet Eavan Boland, the first building named after a woman in the famous university’s 433 years.

The Irish poet Eavan Boland, who died in 2020, was the epitome of a figure she described as an “exile in search of a self”. Born in Dublin in 1944, she had a splintered childhood: she moved to ...

In January 1991 I heard Eavan Boland—who died last Monday, April 27—read a poem at the inauguration of the Irish AIDS Quilt in Dublin, an exhibition that took place several years after the ...

Trinity College Dublin names its Brutalist library after Irish female poet Eavan Boland, the first building named after a woman in the famous university’s 433 years.