Eavan Boland: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Eavan Aisling Boland
Born September 24, 1944 • Dublin • Ireland
Died April 27, 2020 (aged 75) • Dublin • Ireland
Notable Works “23 Poems” • “A Kind of Scar” • “Against Love Poetry” • “Anna Liffey” • “In Her Own Image” • “In a Time of Violence” • “New Territory” • “Night Feed” • “Outside History” • “The Historians” • “The Journey” • “The War Horse”
Subjects Of Study poetry

Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
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Maurice Baring
British author
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
William Butler Yeats seated, wearing round glasses and a textured jacket, looking directly at the camera in a black and white portrait from around 1923.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Maeve Binchy
Maeve Binchy
Irish author
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Derek Mahon
Northern Irish poet and translator
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Louis MacNeice
British poet
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Flann O’Brien
Irish author
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Saint John Ervine
British dramatist
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
English author
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
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James Fenton
British poet and journalist
Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
Leigh Hunt, detail of a watercolour and gouache on ivory by Margaret Gillies, 1838–46; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Leigh Hunt
British author
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
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Nick Joaquin
Filipino author
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Donald Hall
American poet, essayist and critic