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 ...

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 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 ...

“Eavan Boland’s poetry helped write women back into history,” Mary Robinson, Ireland’s first female president and a former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, told CNN via ...

This week on the Poetry Programme, presenter Olivia O’Leary is joined by one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, Eavan Boland, and the programme looks forward to Poetry Day Ireland on ...

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.

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.