About the Poet

Eavan Boland (1944- ) was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1944. The daughter of a diplomat and a painter, Boland spent her girlhood in London and New York, returning to Ireland to attend secondary school in Killiney and later university at Trinity College in Dublin. She is the author of numerous poetry collections, including A Woman Without a Country: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2014).

Learn more about Eavan Boland at The Poetry Foundation.