| LC control no. | n 80109150 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR6052.O35 |
| Personal name heading | Boland, Eavan |
| Other standard no. | 0000000108783394 22253909 Q5331464 |
| Associated country | Ireland |
| Located | Stanford (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1944-09-24 |
| Death date | 2020-04-27 |
| Place of birth | Dublin (Ireland) |
| Place of death | Dublin (Ireland) |
| Field of activity | Poetry Creative writing (Higher education) |
| Affiliation | Stanford University |
| Profession or occupation | Poets College teachers University and college faculty members |
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| Found in | MacLiammhóir, M. W. B. Yeats and his world, 1971. Her Outside history, 1990: t.p. (Eavan Boland) cover p. 4 (b. Dublin, 1944) Brit. CIP (Boland, Eavan, 1944-) A journey with two maps, 2011: E-Cip t.p. (Eavan Boland) data view (b. in Dublin; prof. and director, Creative Writing Program, Stanford Univ) Randolph, Jody Allen. Eavan Boland, 2013: CIP t.p. (Eavan Boland) data view ("a poet described by one critic as Ireland's "first great woman poet") galley ch. 1 ("The family moved to the United States, where Boland remained there for three years. When she sailed with her family to New York in September 1956, a few days short of her twelfth birthday, Boland's life changed in new and profound ways. Her father's job was the cause of the family's relocation. He had been appointed as Permanent Representative to the United Nations. . . . her parents decided she should return to Dublin. Her mother enrolled her in the Convent of the Holy Child, Killiney, a school with a panoramic view from Dublin Bay to Bray Head . . . just after her fifteenth birthday. . . . it was an isolated and unrooted time in her life. . . . Despite new experiences and new friends, Boland was an outsider and felt like one") Wikipedia, April 27, 2020 (Eavan Boland (24 September 1944-27 April 2020); Boland died on 27 April 2020 from a stroke) New York times, May 1, 2020 (Eavan Boland; born Eavan Frances Boland Sept. 24, 1944 in Dublin [Ireland], died Monday [Apr. 27] in Dublin, aged 75; Irish poet who unsettled male field; directed the creative writing program at Stanford University for 21 years; began publishing poetry in the mid-1960s in Ireland and soon became one of the most prominent women in the male-dominated literary landscape of that country) |
| Associated language | eng |
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