![]() ![]() Norton.Ĭatherine Wilsdon, Ph.D., Keough Naughton Institute Programme Manager and Liaison, Ireland īoland's last collection of poetry, The Historians, will be published in 2020 by W.W. That year, Boland's "Outside History" was part of Notre Dame's core syllabus. Shortly afterwards, she visited the University of Notre Dame to contribute to the 1997 Sophomore Literary Festival-a weeklong gathering of noted authors from around the world. Her work is read by secondary school students across Ireland, and her poem ' Quarantine' was shortlisted for RTÉ's selection of Ireland’s favourite poems of the last 100 years.īoland joined Stanford University as professor of English in 1996. ![]() Her poetry foregrounded women's experiences and interrogated the relationship between the poet and nation. Born in 1944, Boland found literary success with her poetry collections "In Her Own Image"(1980), "Nightfeed" (1982), "Outside History" (1990) and "Domestic Violence" (2007). Eavan Boland, one of Ireland's foremost poets, died in April of this year. ![]()
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