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Eavan Boland (Eavan Aisling Boland) was born on 24 September, 1944 in Dublin, Ireland, is an Irish poet, author, and professor (1944–2020). Discover Eavan Boland's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

Popular As Eavan Aisling Boland
Occupation Poet, author, professor
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 24 September, 1944
Birthday 24 September
Birthplace Dublin, Ireland
Date of death 27 April, 2020
Died Place Dublin, Ireland
Nationality Ireland

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1918

In the same year, Boland was commissioned by the Government of Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy to write the poem "Our future will become the past of other women" to be read at the UN and in Ireland during the centenary commemorations of women gaining the vote in Ireland in 1918.

1944

Eavan Aisling Boland (, ; 24 September 1944 – 27 April 2020) was an Irish poet, author, and professor.

She was born in Dublin in 1944.

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

Her dealing with this hostility strengthened Boland's identification with her Irish heritage.

1951

She spoke of this time in her poem, "An Irish Childhood in England: 1951".

At 14, she returned to Dublin to attend Holy Child School in Killiney.

1962

She published a pamphlet of poetry (23 Poems) in her first year at Trinity, in 1962.

1966

Boland earned a BA with First Class Honors in English Literature and Language from Trinity College Dublin in 1966.

After graduating, Boland held numerous teaching positions and published poetry, prose criticism and essays.

She taught at Trinity College Dublin, University College, Dublin, and Bowdoin College, and was a member of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

She was also writer in residence at Trinity College Dublin, and at the National Maternity Hospital.

1967

Eavan Boland's first book of poetry was New Territory published in 1967 with Dublin publisher Allen Figgis.

1969

In 1969, Boland married the novelist Kevin Casey, they would have two daughters together.

Her experiences as a wife and mother influenced her to write about the centrality of the ordinary, as well as providing a frame for more political and historical themes.

According to her friend Gabrielle Calvocoressi, she "loved gossip like fish love water."

1970

In the late 1970s and 1980s, Boland taught at the School of Irish Studies in Dublin.

1975

This was followed by The War Horse (1975), In Her Own Image (1980) and Night Feed (1982), which established her reputation as a writer on the ordinary lives of women and on the difficulties faced by women poets in a male-dominated literary world.

1976

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

Her other awards include a Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry and an American Ireland Fund Literary Award.

1994

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

During this time she composed 'Night Feed' and 'The Tree of Life', and her work remains on a plaque in the hospital garden.

Several of her volumes of poetry have been Poetry Book Society Choices in the UK, where she is primarily published by Carcanet Press.

In the United States her publisher is W. W. Norton.

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

1996

She was a professor at Stanford University, where she had taught from 1996.

Her work deals with the Irish national identity, and the role of women in Irish history.

A number of poems from Boland's poetry career are studied by Irish students who take the Leaving Certificate.

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

Boland's father, Frederick Boland, was a career diplomat and her mother, Frances Kelly, was a noted painter.

From 1996 she was a tenured Professor of English at Stanford University where she was the Bella Mabury and Eloise Mabury Knapp Professor in the Humanities and Melvin and Bill Lane Professor for Director of the Creative Writing program.

She divided her time between Palo Alto and her home in Dublin.

1997

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

2000

Boland co-edited The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (with Mark Strand; W. W. Norton & Co., 2000).

2004

She also published a volume of translations in 2004 called After Every War (Princeton University Press).

2008

Former Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, quoted from her poem "The Emigrant Irish" in his address to the joint houses of the US Congress in May 2008.

With Edward Hirsch, she co-edited "The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology of the Sonnet" (W. W. Norton & Co., 2008).

2015

Her poem "Quarantine" was one of 10 poems shortlisted for RTÉ's selection of Ireland's favourite poems of the last 100 years in 2015.

2016

On March 15, 2016, President Obama quoted lines from her poem "On a Thirtieth Anniversary" (from "Against Love Poetry" 2001) in his remarks at a reception in the White House to celebrate St Patrick's Day.

2018

In March 2018 RTE broadcast a documentary on her life as a poet called "Eavan Boland: Is it Still the Same?".