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|  | | | Poet of the Week - Eavan Boland
Eavan Boland (born 24 September 1944 in Dublin) is an Irish poet.[1] Boland's father, Frederick Boland, was a career diplomat and her mother, Frances Kelly, was a noted post-expressionist painter. She was born in Dublin in 1944. At the age of six, she and her family moved 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. She spoke of this time in her poem "An Irish
Childhood in England: 1951."
She later returned to Dublin to attend school and published a
pamphlet of poetry (23 Poems) in her first year as an undergraduate at
Trinity, in 1962. Boland received her BA (Bachelor of Arts Degree) from
Trinity College, Dublin in 1966. Since then she has held numerous
teaching positions and published poetry, books and journal articles.
Boland married in 1969 and has two children. Her experiences as a wife
and mother have influenced her to write about the centrality of the
ordinary, as well as providing a frame for more political and
historical themes.
 Eavan Boland
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