Eavan Boland

Leon Lewis (Appalachian State University)

Ed. by Anne Markey, Dublin City University, Ian Campbell Ross, Trinity College Dublin
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.4: Irish Writing and Culture, 400-present.
Vol. editors: Paul Delaney (Trinity College Dublin), Anne Markey (Dublin City University), Ian Campbell Ross (Trinity College Dublin), Sinéad Sturgeon (Queen's University Belfast)

Dates

Born 24 Sep 1944
Activity 1964-ongoing

Places

Born in Ireland, Republic of (Eire)
Active in Ireland, Republic of (Eire)

Activities

Primary

Poet

Resources

From her earliest awareness of herself as a writer, Eavan Boland defined her identity as an Irish woman. “Even now, my parents seem to me perfectly Irish, completely of their time and place”, Boland wrote in her 2011 collection A Journey with Two Maps (Boland, A Journey with Two Maps, 27). As an aspiring young student and poet in Dublin in the 1960s, Boland was drawn to a traditional vision of Irish literary life, “imagining myself there” as “I loved that narrative with its irresistible mix of dark violence and Victorian sentiment” (Boland, Object Lessons, 62/63). The inducement to “write in that cursive and approved script can seem, for the unwary …

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Citation: Lewis, Leon. "Eavan Boland". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 July 2020 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5517, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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