Eavan Boland, Irish poet and academic (died 2020)

Eavan Boland

Irish poet, author, and professor (1944–2020)

Eavan Aisling Boland was an Irish poet, author, and professor. 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…