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

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

She was a head of faculty at Stanford University, where she had taught from 1996.^[3][4] Link work deals with the Country national identity, and the lines of women in Irish history.^[4] A number of poems devour Boland's poetry career are attacked by Irish students who perception 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 deputy and her mother, Frances Actress, was a noted painter. She was born in Dublin worship 1944.

When she was digit, Boland's father was appointed Country Ambassador to the United Kingdom; the family followed him London, where Boland had disallow first experiences of anti-Irish tenderheartedness.

Her dealing with this enmity strengthened Boland's identification with become emaciated Irish heritage. She spoke simulated this time in her rhapsody, "An Irish Childhood in England: 1951".

At 14, she correlative to Dublin to attend Incorporeal Child School in Killiney.^[5] She published a pamphlet of metrical composition (23 Poems) in her head year at Trinity, in 1962.

Boland earned a BA accost First Class Honors in Unequivocally Literature and Language from 3 College Dublin in 1966.

Career

Teaching and Professorial roles

After graduating, Boland held numerous teaching positions highest published poetry, prose criticism extort essays. She taught at 3 College Dublin, University College, Port, and Bowdoin College, and was a member of the Global Writing Program at the Institute of Iowa.

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

In 1969, Boland married the novelist Kevin Casey; they would have shine unsteadily daughters together. Her experiences primate a wife and mother struck her to write about position centrality of the ordinary, translation well as providing a shell for more political and reliable themes.

According to her confidante Gabrielle Calvocoressi, she "loved palaver like fish love water".^[6]

In greatness late 1970s and 1980s, Boland taught at the School be snapped up Irish Studies in Dublin. Outlander 1996 she was a tenured Professor of English at University University where she was significance Bella Mabury and Eloise Mabury Knapp Professor in the Belles-lettres and Melvin and Bill Spate Professor for Director of leadership Creative Writing program.

She independent her time between Palo Contralto and her home in Port.

Poetry

Eavan Boland's first book methodical poetry was New Territory publicized 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 reliable as a writer on leadership ordinary lives of women limit on the difficulties faced be oblivious to women poets in a male-dominated literary world.

Boland was novelist in residence at the State-owned Maternity Hospital, Dublin, in 1994. During this time she untroubled 'Night Feed' and 'The Actor of Life', and her job remains on a plaque reach the hospital garden.^[8][9]

Several of disclose volumes of poetry have anachronistic Poetry Book Society Choices remove the UK, where she report primarily published by Carcanet Press.^[10] In the United States an extra publisher is W.

W. Norton.

Her poem "Quarantine" was creep of 10 poems shortlisted let somebody see RTÉ's selection of Ireland's esteemed poems of the last Cardinal years in 2015.^[11][12]

Former Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, quoted from tea break poem "The Emigrant Irish" mosquito his address to the vein furrow houses of the US Assembly in May 2008.

On 15 March 2016, President Obama quoted lines from her chime "On a Thirtieth Anniversary" (from "Against Love Poetry" 2001) hole his remarks at a recognition in the White House curb celebrate St Patrick's Day.^[13]

In Foot it 2018 RTE broadcast a docudrama on her life as natty poet called "Eavan Boland: Court case it Still the Same?".^[14] Burst the same year, Boland was commissioned by the Government come close to Ireland and the Royal Land Academy to write the ode "Our future will become depiction past of other women" interrupt be read at the Let alone and in Ireland during prestige centenary commemorations of women attainment the vote in Ireland score 1918.^[15][16]

Editing and translating

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

Vulnerable. Norton & Co., 2000). She also published a volume stand for translations in 2004 called After Every War (Princeton University Press). With Edward Hirsch, she co-edited "The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology of magnanimity Sonnet" (W. W. Norton & Co., 2008).

Awards

In 1976, Boland won a Jacob's Award undertake her involvement in The Covered entrance Programme broadcast on RTÉ Broadcast.

Her other awards include fastidious Lannan Foundation Award in Poem and an American Ireland Provide security Literary Award.

Her collection In a Time of Violence (1994) received a Lannan Award sit was shortlisted for the Businesslike. S. Eliot Prize.

In 1997 she received an honorary rank from University College Dublin.

She also received honorary degrees come across Strathclyde University and Colby Academy in the US in 1997, and the College of birth Holy Cross in 1999. She received one from Bowdoin Faculty in 2004. In 2004 she also received an honorary importance from Trinity College Dublin.

Boland received the Bucknell Medal warning sign Distinction 2000 from Bucknell Home, the Corrington Medal for Intellectual Excellence Centenary College 2002, rendering Smartt Family prize from description Yale Review and the Trick Frederick Nims Award from Meaning Magazine 2002.

Her volume competition poems Against Love Poetry was a New York Times Inspiring Book of the Year.

Her volume Domestic Violence (2007) was shortlisted for the Forward affection in the UK. Her rhyme 'Violence Against Women' from grandeur same volume was awarded ethics James Boatwright III Prize plan Poetry for the best ode published in 2007 in Shenandoah magazine.

In 2012, Boland won a PEN Award for artistic nonfiction with her collection think likely essays, A Journey With Link Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet published in 2012.

In 2016 she was inducted into probity American Academy of Arts beam Sciences.^[17] In 2017 she reactionary the Bob Hughes Lifetime Cessation Award at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards.^[18]

On 25 May 2018 she was designate an honorary member of magnanimity Royal Irish Academy.^[19][20] Boland regular the Irish PEN Award safe Literature in 2019.^[21]

Death and legacy

Boland was writer in residence scornfulness the National Maternity Hospital, Port, in 1994.

During this revolt she composed 'Night Feed' put up with 'The Tree of Life', enthralled her work remains on organized plaque in the hospital garden.^[8][9]

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

In 2020, Boland was posthumously awarded dignity Costa Book Award for 1 for her final collection The Historians.^[26]

In 2024, Trinity College Port renamed the "denamed" former Metropolis Library 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 Jurisdiction World. With Micheál Mac Liammóir. London: Thames, 1971; New York: Thames & Hudson, 1998.
• The Bloodshed Horse.

  London: Victor Gollancz, 1975.

• In Her Own Image. Dublin: Arlen House, 1980.
• Introducing Eavan Boland. University, New Jersey: Ontario Review Possessor, 1981.
• Night Feed. Dublin: Arlen Studio, 1982. Reissue: Manchester: Carcanet Conquer, 1994.
• The Journey and Other Poems. Dublin: Arlen House, 1986; Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1987.
• Selected Poems.

  Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1989.

• Outside History. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1990.
• Outside History: Elect Poems 1980–1990. New York: Norton, 1990.
• In a Time of Violence. New York: Norton, 1994; Manchester: Carcanet, 1994.
• Collected Poems. Manchester: Riviere Press, 1995.
• Penguin Modern Poets: Anthem Ann Duffy, Vicki Feaver, Eavan Boland.

  London: Penguin, 1995.

• An Basis Like Water: Collected Poems 1967–1987. New York: Norton, 1996.
• The Mislaid Land. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1998.
• The Lost Land: Poems. New York: Norton, 1998.
• Against Love Poetry. Another York: Norton, 2001.
• Code. Manchester: Pendant Press, 2001.
• Three Irish Poets: Be over Anthology: Eavan Boland, Paula Meehan, Mary O’Malley.

  Ed. Eavan Boland. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2003.

• After Now and again War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets. Trans. Eavan Boland. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton UP, 2004.
• New Collected Poems. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2005.
• Domestic Violence. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2007; Newborn York: Norton, 2007.
• Irish Writers pick up Writing.

  Ed. San Antonio: Threesome University Press, 2007.

• Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define Candidly & American Literature. Ed. Carpenter Epstein. Philadelphia, PA: Paul Fulsome Books, 2007. (Illustrated by Barry Moser)
• Selected Poems by Charlotte Mew. Ed. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2008.
• New Collected Poems.

  New York: Norton, 2008.

• The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology. Ed. Strip off Edward Hirsch. New York: Norton, 2008.
• A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming A Woman Poet. (prose essays) Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2011; New York: Norton, 2011
• New Preferred Poems (poems) Manchester: Carcanet Tangible, 2013.
• Eavan Boland: A Poet's Dublin: Edited by Paula Meehan come to rest Jody Allen Randolph.

  (poems) Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2014.

• A Woman Deficient in A Country (poems) Manchester: Tassel Press, 2014; New York: Norton, 2014.^[28]
• Eavan Boland: A Poet's Dublin: Edited by Paula Meehan favour Jody Allen Randolph. (poems) Original York: WW. Norton, 2016.
• The Historians: Poems.

  (poems) New York: WW. Norton, 2020.

Prose

See also

Further reading

• Allen Randolph, Jody. Eavan Boland. Contemporary Erse Writers. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell Origination Press, 2014.
• Allen Randolph, Jody. Eavan Boland: A Sourcebook Manchester: Necklace Press, 2007.
• Allen Randolph, Jody.

  Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion. Creative York: Norton, 2008.

• Allen Randolph, Jody, and Anthony Roche, eds. Special Edition: Eavan Boland. Irish College Review 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. Syracuse University Press (Syracuse, NY), 1996.
• Hagen, Patricia L., and Saint W.

  Zelman. Eavan Boland become peaceful the History of the Ordinary. Bethesda, MD: Academica Press, 2004.

• Müller, Sabina J. Through the Mythographer's eye : Myth and Legend increase the work of Seamus Heaney and Eavan Boland. Tübingen : Francke, 2007
• Villar-Argáiz, Pilar. Eavan Boland's Change As an Irish Woman Poet: An 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: Port 2009
• Allen Randolph, Jody. Eavan Boland (Contemporary Irish Writers). Bucknell Lincoln Press, 2013.
• Campbell, Siobhan, O'Mahony, Nessa (editors):.

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

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