Eavan Boland

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Trinity College Dublin celebrates renaming former Berkeley library after poet Eavan Boland • Mar. 10, 2025, 1:16 PM ET (Irish Times)

Ireland’s oldest university names its first building after a woman. It only took 433 years • Mar. 6, 2025, 9:46 PM ET (CNN)

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Also Known As	Eavan Aisling Boland
Born	September 24, 1944 • Dublin • Ireland
Died	April 27, 2020 (aged 75) • Dublin • Ireland
Notable Works	“23 Poems” • “A Kind of Scar” • “Against Love Poetry” • “Anna Liffey” • “In Her Own Image” • “In a Time of Violence” • “New Territory” • “Night Feed” • “Outside History” • “The Historians” • “The Journey” • “The War Horse”
Subjects Of Study	poetry

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

English author

Maurice Baring

British author

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish author and clergyman

James Joyce

James Joyce

Irish author

William Butler Yeats, c. 1915.

William Butler Yeats

Irish author and poet

Maeve Binchy

Maeve Binchy

Irish author

Derek Mahon

Northern Irish poet and translator

Flann O’Brien

Irish author

Louis MacNeice

British poet

Saint John Ervine

British dramatist

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

English poet

Joseph Addison

Joseph Addison

English author

Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Robert Southey

English author

James Fenton

British poet and journalist

Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

English poet

Chesterton, G.K.

G.K. Chesterton

British author

Leigh Hunt, detail of a watercolour and gouache on ivory by Margaret Gillies, 1838–46; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Leigh Hunt

British author

Opitz, Martin

Martin Opitz

German poet

Nick Joaquin

Filipino author

Donald Hall

American poet, essayist and critic

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