Eavon Boland Life
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1944- [Eavan Aisling Boland; occas. thus on title-pages]; b. 24 Sept., Dublin; dg. painter Frances Kelly and Harry [Frederick Henry] Boland (1904-1985), Irish Ambassador to Britain, and United Nations President, 1960; ed. Holy Child Convent, Killiney; London and TCD; temp. lect. TCD 1966-68; taught creative writing in Ireland and US; New Territory(1967), a first collection, incl. translations from Irish of Egan O’Rathilly and others as well as the concluding longer poem “The Winning of Etain”, based on a 10th c. manuscript - many being ded. to Brendan Kennelly (“The Flight of the Earls”), Eamon Grennan (“The Pilgrim”), and Michael Longley; Macaulay fellowship for poetry, 1968; also translations of Horace, Mayakovsky, and Nelly Sachs; long-term contrib. of review and literary articles to The Irish Timesunder lit. editorships of Terence de Vere White and John Banville; contrib. ‘The Northern Writer’s Crisis of Conscience’, a series in The Irish Times(12-14 Aug. 1970); commissioned essay for Causeway: Arts in Ulster (1971); during the 1970s wrote poetry concerning women’s marginalisation and national identity; simultaneously developed prose critique of female literary stereotype as ‘fictive queens and national sibyls'; In Her Own Image(1980); co-founder Arlen House, Irish feminist press [Mountjoy Sq.], 1980; m. Kevin Casey, with two dgs., Sarah and Eavan Frances; Night Feed(1982), deals with realities of motherhood; lectures widely in US, and held fellowship of Iowa International Writing Program, with Casey, in 1980; Outside History(1990), defines reality in non-male terms; addressed IASAIL conference, Dublin 1992, on Irish Women Poets, tackling especially the anti-feminism of the Field Day Anthology[See The Irish Times, August 1992]; holder of Lannan Foundation award ($50,000); In a Time of Violence(1994); An Origin Like Water (1996); appointed full professor, Stanford University; MIAL; published by Norton in America; refused Aosdána nomination; The Lost Land...
1944- [Eavan Aisling Boland; occas. thus on title-pages]; b. 24 Sept., Dublin; dg. painter Frances Kelly and Harry [Frederick Henry] Boland (1904-1985), Irish Ambassador to Britain, and United Nations President, 1960; ed. Holy Child Convent, Killiney; London and TCD; temp. lect. TCD 1966-68; taught creative writing in Ireland and US; New Territory(1967), a first collection, incl. translations from Irish of Egan O’Rathilly and others as well as the concluding longer poem “The Winning of Etain”, based on a 10th c. manuscript - many being ded. to Brendan Kennelly (“The Flight of the Earls”), Eamon Grennan (“The Pilgrim”), and Michael Longley; Macaulay fellowship for poetry, 1968; also translations of Horace, Mayakovsky, and Nelly Sachs; long-term contrib. of review and literary articles to The Irish Timesunder lit. editorships of Terence de Vere White and John Banville; contrib. ‘The Northern Writer’s Crisis of Conscience’, a series in The Irish Times(12-14 Aug. 1970); commissioned essay for Causeway: Arts in Ulster (1971); during the 1970s wrote poetry concerning women’s marginalisation and national identity; simultaneously developed prose critique of female literary stereotype as ‘fictive queens and national sibyls'; In Her Own Image(1980); co-founder Arlen House, Irish feminist press [Mountjoy Sq.], 1980; m. Kevin Casey, with two dgs., Sarah and Eavan Frances; Night Feed(1982), deals with realities of motherhood; lectures widely in US, and held fellowship of Iowa International Writing Program, with Casey, in 1980; Outside History(1990), defines reality in non-male terms; addressed IASAIL conference, Dublin 1992, on Irish Women Poets, tackling especially the anti-feminism of the Field Day Anthology[See The Irish Times, August 1992]; holder of Lannan Foundation award ($50,000); In a Time of Violence(1994); An Origin Like Water (1996); appointed full professor, Stanford University; MIAL; published by Norton in America; refused Aosdána nomination; The Lost Land...