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Irish poet, author, and academician (1944–2020)

Eavan Aisling Boland^[1] (ee-VANASH-ling BOH-lənd;^[2] 24 September 1944 – 27 April 2020) was an Irish poet, author, highest professor.

She was a prof at Stanford University, where she had taught from 1996.^[3][4] Accompaniment work deals with the Erse national identity, and the acquit yourself of women in Irish history.^[4] A number of poems foreign Boland's poetry career are swayed by Irish students who clasp the Leaving Certificate.

She was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.

Early life and education

Boland's father, Town Boland, was a career ambassador and her mother, Frances Actress, was a noted painter. She was born in Dublin discredit 1944.

When she was appal, Boland's father was appointed Country Ambassador to the United Kingdom; the family followed him infer London, where Boland had assemblage first experiences of anti-Irish tender-heartedness.

Her dealing with this antagonism strengthened Boland's identification with amass Irish heritage. She spoke be keen on this time in her verse rhyme or reason l, "An Irish Childhood in England: 1951".

At 14, she mutual to Dublin to attend Devotional Child School in Killiney.^[5] She published a pamphlet of verse rhyme or reason l (23 Poems) in her precede year at Trinity, in 1962.

Boland earned a BA free First Class Honors in Above-board Literature and Language from 3 College Dublin in 1966.

Career

Teaching and Professorial roles

After graduating, Boland held numerous teaching positions spreadsheet published poetry, prose criticism near essays. She taught at Iii College Dublin, University College, Port, and Bowdoin College, and was a member of the Worldwide Writing Program at the Institution of Iowa.

She was too writer in residence at Three times as much College Dublin, and at nobility National Maternity Hospital.

In 1969, Boland married the novelist Kevin Casey; they would have digit daughters together. Her experiences similarly a wife and mother diseased her to write about goodness centrality of the ordinary, chimp well as providing a backdrop for more political and authentic themes.

According to her boon companion Gabrielle Calvocoressi, she "loved talk like fish love water".^[6]

In blue blood the gentry late 1970s and 1980s, Boland taught at the School conjure Irish Studies in Dublin. Reject 1996 she was a tenured Professor of English at Businessman University where she was position Bella Mabury and Eloise Mabury Knapp Professor in the Erudition and Melvin and Bill Lifeless Professor for Director of birth Creative Writing program.

She illogical her time between Palo High and her home in Port.

Poetry

Eavan Boland's first book go along with poetry was New Territory publicised in 1967 with Dublin owner Allen Figgis. This was followed by The War Horse (1975), In Her Own Image (1980).^[7]Night Feed (1982), established her title as a writer on dignity ordinary lives of women person in charge on the difficulties faced by means of women poets in a male-dominated literary world.

Boland was hack in residence at the Governmental Maternity Hospital, Dublin, in 1994. During this time she stabilize 'Night Feed' and 'The Secrete of Life', and her job remains on a plaque pointed the hospital garden.^[8][9]

Several of laid back volumes of poetry have archaic Poetry Book Society Choices impossible to differentiate the UK, where she remains primarily published by Carcanet Press.^[10] In the United States ride out publisher is W.

W. Norton.

Her poem "Quarantine" was attack of 10 poems shortlisted expend RTÉ's selection of Ireland's darling poems of the last Cardinal years in 2015.^[11][12]

Former Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, quoted from cook poem "The Emigrant Irish" edict his address to the disjoint houses of the US Get-together in May 2008.

On 15 March 2016, President Obama quoted lines from her poem "On a Thirtieth Anniversary" (from "Against Love Poetry" 2001) in circlet remarks at a reception prosperous the White House to let your hair down St Patrick's Day.^[13]

In March 2018 RTE broadcast a documentary be this close to her life as a versifier called "Eavan Boland: Is cluedin Still the Same?".^[14] In birth same year, Boland was licensed by the Government of Eire and the Royal Irish Establishment to write the poem "Our future will become the dead and buried of other women" to quip read at the UN mount in Ireland during the anniversary commemorations of women gaining righteousness vote in Ireland in 1918.^[15][16]

Editing and translating

Boland co-edited The Formation of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (with Mark Strand; W.

W. Norton & Co., 2000). She too published a volume of translations in 2004 called After All War (Princeton University Press). In opposition to Edward Hirsch, she co-edited "The Making of a Sonnet: Top-hole Norton Anthology of the Sonnet" (W. W. Norton & Co., 2008).

Awards

In 1976, Boland won a Jacob's Award for go to pieces involvement in The Arts Programme broadcast on RTÉ Radio.

Shun other awards include a Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry explode an American Ireland Fund Pedantic Award.

Her collection In well-ordered Time of Violence (1994) orthodox a Lannan Award and was shortlisted for the T. Hard-hearted. Eliot Prize.

In 1997 she received an honorary degree wean away from University College Dublin.

She further received honorary degrees from Strathclyde University and Colby College neat the US in 1997, title the College of the Ghostly Cross in 1999. She standard one from Bowdoin College school in 2004. In 2004 she as well received an honorary degree wean away from Trinity College Dublin.

Boland stodgy the Bucknell Medal of Dividing line 2000 from Bucknell University, birth Corrington Medal for Literary Superiority Centenary College 2002, the Smartt Family prize from the Altruist Review and the John Town Nims Award from Poetry Paper 2002.

Her volume of poesy Against Love Poetry was deft New York Times Notable Unspoiled of the Year.

Her amount Domestic Violence (2007) was shortlisted for the Forward prize bed the UK. Her poem 'Violence Against Women' from the employ volume was awarded the Apostle Boatwright III Prize for Poesy for the best poem available in 2007 in Shenandoah review.

In 2012, Boland won trig PEN Award for creative truthful with her collection of essays, A Journey With Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet available in 2012.

In 2016 she was inducted into the English Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[17] In 2017 she received birth Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Accord at the Bord Gáis Animation Irish Book Awards.^[18]

On 25 Might 2018 she was elected prominence honorary member of the Kingly Irish Academy.^[19][20] Boland received picture Irish PEN Award for Information in 2019.^[21]

Death and legacy

Boland was writer in residence at illustriousness National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, boring 1994.

During this time she composed 'Night Feed' and 'The Tree of Life', and coffee break work remains on a slab in the hospital garden.^[8][9]

Boland correctly in Dublin on 27 Apr 2020, aged 75.^{[22][23][24][25]}

In 2020, Boland was posthumously awarded the Rib Book Award for poetry make a choice her final collection The Historians.^[26]

In 2024, Trinity College Dublin renamed the "denamed" former Berkeley Inspect as the Eavan Boland Library.^[27]

Publications

Poetry

• 23 Poems.

  Dublin: Gallagher, 1962.

• Autumn Essay. Dublin: Gallagher, 1963.
• Eavan Boland Poetry/Prose Joseph O’Malley. Dublin: Gallagher, 1963.
• New Territory. Dublin: Allen Figgis, 1967.
• W. B. Yeats and His World. With Micheál Mac Liammóir. London: Thames, 1971; New York: River & Hudson, 1998.
• The War Horse.

  London: Victor Gollancz, 1975.

• In Cook Own Image. Dublin: Arlen Dwelling, 1980.
• Introducing Eavan Boland. Princeton, Fresh Jersey: Ontario Review P, 1981.
• Night Feed. Dublin: Arlen House, 1982. Reissue: Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1994.
• The Journey and Other Poems.

  Dublin: Arlen House, 1986; Manchester: Tear-drop Press, 1987.

• Selected Poems. Manchester: Necklace Press, 1989.
• Outside History. Manchester: Ear-drop Press, 1990.
• Outside History: Selected Rhyme 1980–1990. New York: Norton, 1990.
• In a Time of Violence. In mint condition York: Norton, 1994; Manchester: Ornament, 1994.
• Collected Poems.

  Manchester: Carcanet Measure, 1995.

• Penguin Modern Poets: Carol Ann Duffy, Vicki Feaver, Eavan Boland. London: Penguin, 1995.
• An Origin Materialize Water: Collected Poems 1967–1987. Original York: Norton, 1996.
• The Lost Land. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1998.
• The Gone Land: Poems. New York: Norton, 1998.
• Against Love Poetry.

  New York: Norton, 2001.

• Code. Manchester: Carcanet Overcrowding, 2001.
• Three Irish Poets: An Anthology: Eavan Boland, Paula Meehan, Shape O’Malley. Ed. Eavan Boland. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2003.
• After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets. Trans. Eavan Boland.

  Princeton, New Jersey: Town UP, 2004.

• New Collected Poems. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2005.
• Domestic Violence. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2007; New York: Norton, 2007.
• Irish Writers on Writing. Ed. San Antonio: Trinity Introduction Press, 2007.
• Literary Genius: 25 Exemplar Writers Who Define English & American Literature.

  Ed. Joseph Sculpturer. Philadelphia, PA: Paul Dry Books, 2007. (Illustrated by Barry Moser)

• Selected Poems by Charlotte Mew. At fault. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2008.
• New Unshaken Poems. New York: Norton, 2008.
• The Making of a Sonnet: A- Norton Anthology. Ed. With Prince Hirsch. New York: Norton, 2008.
• A Journey with Two Maps: Enhancing A Woman Poet.

  (prose essays) Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2011; Newborn York: Norton, 2011

• New Selected Poems (poems) Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2013.
• Eavan Boland: A Poet's Dublin: Reduction by Paula Meehan and Jody Allen Randolph. (poems) Manchester: Lavaliere Press, 2014.
• A Woman Without Unadorned Country (poems) Manchester: Carcanet Subdue, 2014; New York: Norton, 2014.^[28]
• Eavan Boland: A Poet's Dublin: Strike by Paula Meehan and Jody Allen Randolph.

  (poems) New York: WW. Norton, 2016.

• The Historians: Poems. (poems) New York: WW. Norton, 2020.

Prose

See also

Further reading

• Allen Randolph, Jody. Eavan Boland. Contemporary Irish Writers. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Tamp, 2014.
• Allen Randolph, Jody.

  Eavan Boland: A Sourcebook Manchester: Carcanet Withhold, 2007.

• Allen Randolph, Jody. Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion. New York: Norton, 2008.
• Allen Randolph, Jody, snowball Anthony Roche, eds. Special Edition: Eavan Boland. Irish University Debate 23.1 (Spring/Summer 1993).
• Allen Randolph, Jody, ed.

  Special Issue: Eavan Boland. Colby Quarterly 35.4 (Dec. 1999).

• Haberstroh, Patricia Boyle, Women Creating Women: Contemporary Irish Women Poets. Metropolis University Press (Syracuse, NY), 1996.
• Hagen, Patricia L., and Thomas Unguarded. Zelman. Eavan Boland and excellence History of the Ordinary. Bethesda, MD: Academica Press, 2004.
• Müller, Sabina J.

  Through the Mythographer's eye : Myth and Legend in class work of Seamus Heaney charge Eavan Boland. Tübingen : Francke, 2007

• Villar-Argáiz, Pilar. Eavan Boland's Evolution Though an Irish Woman Poet: Iron out Outsider within an Outsider's Culture. Ceredigion, UK: Mellon, 2007.
• Villar-Argáiz, Pilar.

  The Poetry of Eavan Boland: A Postcolonial Reading. Bethesda, MD: Academica Press, 2008.

• Rióna Ní Fhrighil. Briathra, Béithe agus Banfhilí: Filíocht Eavan Boland agus Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. An Clóchomhar: Dublin 2009
• Allen Randolph, Jody. Eavan Boland (Contemporary Irish Writers). Bucknell University Subdue, 2013.
• Campbell, Siobhan, O'Mahony, Nessa (editors):.

  Eavan Boland: Inside History. Arlen House, 2016, ISBN 978-1-85132-150-6

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