1. Eavan Aisling Boland was an Irish poet, author, and professor.
23 Facts About Eavan Boland
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Eavan Boland was a professor at Stanford University, where she had taught from 1996.
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Eavan Boland was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.
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Eavan Boland's father, Frederick Eavan Boland, was a career diplomat and her mother, Frances Kelly, was a noted painter.
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When she was six, Eavan Boland's father was appointed Irish Ambassador to the United Kingdom, and the family moved to London, where Eavan Boland had her first experiences of anti-Irish sentiment.
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Eavan Boland's dealing with this hostility strengthened Boland's identification with her Irish heritage.
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Eavan Boland spoke of this time in her poem, "An Irish Childhood in England: 1951".
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Eavan Boland published a pamphlet of poetry in her first year at Trinity, in 1962.
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Eavan Boland earned a BA with First Class Honors in English Literature and Language from Trinity College Dublin in 1966.
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Eavan Boland taught at Trinity College Dublin, University College, Dublin, and Bowdoin College, and was a member of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
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Eavan Boland was writer in residence at Trinity College Dublin, and at the National Maternity Hospital.
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In 1969, Eavan Boland married the novelist Kevin Casey; they had two daughters together.
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Eavan Boland divided her time between Palo Alto and her home in Dublin.
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Eavan Boland was writer in residence at the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, in 1994.
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Eavan Boland published a volume of translations in 2004 called After Every War.
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In 1976, Eavan Boland won a Jacob's Award for her involvement in The Arts Programme broadcast on RTE Radio.
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Eavan Boland received honorary degrees from Strathclyde University and Colby College in the US in 1997, and the College of the Holy Cross in 1999.
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Eavan Boland received the Bucknell Medal of Distinction 2000 from Bucknell University, the Corrington Medal for Literary Excellence Centenary College 2002, the Smartt Family prize from the Yale Review and the John Frederick Nims Award from Poetry Magazine 2002.
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Eavan Boland's volume of poems Against Love Poetry was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
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In 2012, Eavan Boland won a PEN Award for creative nonfiction with her collection of essays, A Journey With Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet published in 2012.
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Eavan Boland received the Irish PEN Award for Literature in 2019.
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Eavan Boland was writer in residence at the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, in 1994.
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In 2020, Eavan Boland was posthumously awarded the Costa Book Award for poetry for her final collection The Historians.