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Eavan Aisling Boland [1] (/ iː ˈ v æ n ˈ æ ʃ l ɪ ŋ ˈ b oʊ l ə n d / ee-VAN ASH-ling BOH-lənd; [2] 24 September 1944 – 27 April 2020) was an Irish poet, author, and professor. She was a professor at Stanford University, where she had taught from 1996.
Quarantine" is a political poem [1] written by Irish poet Eavan Boland about the Irish famine of the mid 19th century, published in her 2001 poetry collection Code. [2] It was one of 10 poems shortlisted for RTÉ's selection of Ireland's favourite poems of the last 100 years in 2015. [2] [3]
Eavan Boland (born 1944, E) Dermot Bolger (born 1959, E) Pat Boran (born 1963, E) Samuel Boyse (1709–1749, E) Rory Brennan (born 1945, E) Frances Browne (1816–1887, E) George Brun (fl. late 18th century, I) Colette Bryce (born 1970, E) Catherine Byron (born 1947), E; Michael Feeney Callan (born 1955, E) Moya Cannon (born 1956, E) Ciarán ...
"The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov (NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 11/2013). Edited and Annotated by Paul A. Lacey and Anne Dewey, with an Introduction by Eavan Boland, Afterword by Paul A. Lacey & Anne Dewey. ISBN 978-0-8112-2173-3; The Life Around Us: Selected Poems on Nature (1997). ISBN 0-8112-1352-8
Ni Dhomhnaill's poems appear in English translation in the dual-language editions Rogha Dánta/Selected Poems (1986, 1988, 1990); The Astrakhan Cloak (1992), Pharaoh's Daughter (1990), The Water Horse (2007), and The Fifty Minute Mermaid (2007). Selected Essays appeared in 2005. Her poem, 'Mo Ghrá-Sa (Idir Lúibini)', is part of the Leaving ...
Her broad academic interests (notably her specialism in Renaissance literature and her interest in translation) are reflected in her poetry. She retired from full-time teaching in 2011 and a selection of her poems are currently on the syllabus for the Leaving Certificate, the final state examination for secondary school students. [2]
Among modern writers to have translated the poem are Robin Flower, W. H. Auden, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon and Eavan Boland. In Auden's translation, the poem was set by Samuel Barber as the eighth of his ten Hermit Songs (1952–53). Fay Sampson wrote a series of books based on the poem. They follow the adventures of Pangur Bán, Niall the ...
A poem of the same name by Eavan Boland was written as a counter to Pearse's poem, and its treatment of Ireland and her children. [6] Pearse had already written optimistically on the fate of Ireland's strong sons' martyrdom in his poem "The Mother"; Is Mise takes the opposite, more pessimistic view of the sacrifice. [7]