If men were killing beetles at the rate they’re attacking women, something would be done
They were daughters, mothers, sisters, aunts, women with histories and plans for the lives they had yet to live
Eavan Boland
Latest articles about Eavan Boland
Trinity College Dublin celebrates renaming former Berkeley library after poet Eavan Boland
Trinity Chancellor Mary McAleese said move was part of dealing with ‘colonial legacies’
The Enlightenment gave rise to a habit of worshipping ‘great men’, but they never had to worry about dying in childbirth
Unthinkable: Donald Trump is on a crusade to unwind the ‘woke’ agenda, but that does not mean the question of inclusivity is solved
Poets’ prose: Thinking about questions posed by poems, from Seamus Heaney to Eavan Boland
The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose edited by Ian Hickey and Eugene O’Brien; Citizen Poet: New & Selected Essays by Eavan Boland; Questioning Ireland by Thomas McCarthy
David Marcus, The Irish Times and a golden age of literary journalism
Even at a time of much cross-fertilisation between the literary and journalistic worlds, it was a brave and radical idea to run a regular creative-writing page in a daily newspaper. In pursuing this, David Marcus nurtured many young talents
Why are so few places and streets in Ireland named after women?
The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle
Have your say on honouring Irish women: Are there any Irish streets, buildings, places or structures that should be named, or renamed, after women?
Which women should have places, streets or structures around Ireland named after them? We would like to hear your thoughts
The Irish Times view on Trinity College’s renamed library: a natural process of change
Some argue that removing George Berkeley’s name is an ahistorical imposition of contemporary values on the complexities of the past
Goodbye George Berkeley, hello Eavan Boland: why has Trinity renamed its biggest library?
Trinity College Dublin this week announced the library would be renamed after the celebrated Irish poet
Eavan Boland, who wrote about women’s lives, is a better fit for Trinity than slave-owning Berkeley
Names and their meanings are philosophically complex. It would be unwise to re-name everything called after a figure whose troubling personal legacy comes to light. The TCD library was different
The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020 by Diarmaid Ferriter - A hugely valuable exploration of a rollercoaster time
Book shows that even as Ireland has changed, its biggest problems remain ‘deep-rooted and historical’
In the 1980s I loved many men. I’d completely overlooked the women
Our series celebrating 50 years of women’s writing surveys the fiction, poetry and nonfiction of the early 1980s
Remembering Eavan Boland on Nollaig na mBan - a leading feminist light
To mark Nollaig na mBan, Alan Hayes salutes the life and legacy of the poet and feminist pioneer
Leaving Cert English paper 2: Heaney ‘sends the country home happy’
More choice and fewer questions give students ‘vast desert’ of time in well-received exam
Boland: Journey of a Poet – One-note production of a near-perfect biographical play
Review: Druid’s chronicle of Eavan Boland’s life and work overlooks myriad possibilities
House in Joyce’s The Dead to be turned into hostel despite Tóibín appeal
Bord Pleanála approves plans following objections from authors, poets and An Taisce
Ireland's Ambassador gets ready to take seat at UN Security Council
Geraldine Byrne-Nason’s preparations will intensify soon for January start
The Irish Times view on Eavan Boland: A radical, dissenting voice
The late poet was the supreme archivist of hidden histories
Nudity, teenage sex, porno movies and plain old fornication: Liveline has it all
Joe Duffy can’t believe his luck – er, sorry, ears – when callers splutter about Normal People
Eavan Boland, leading Irish poet and champion of the female voice, dies aged 75
Poet, who returned last month from teaching at Stanford University, suffered a stroke
Sharing wisdom in a time of crisis: 25 ways to live your life to the full
Brendan Gleeson, Eavan Boland, John Creedon and others pass on advice during this uncertain time
‘Ciaran Carson drew Belfast better than anyone I ever read’
Sinéad Morrissey, John Banville and fellow writers salute a great man and a great poet
The best (and worst) TV of 2018
The Year in Review: Young Offenders and Red Rock among our television favourites
Vote 100: Events to mark the centenary of the vote for women in Ireland
The ending of the ban on women voting and standing for election is being celebrated across the country
Kilkenny Arts Festival: Brahms, Beethoven and Bertie on the menu
Opera version of the ‘Odyssey’ and an open-air Shakespeare production will run in August
Breda O’Brien: How products keep us in state of chronic anxiety
Treated as mere consumers, we are forced into a cult of predictable values
Leaving Cert English paper 2: Relief as predicted poets appear
No unpleasant surprises in an exam which asserts the importance of literature
Call for Ireland to maintain strong research links with UK after Brexit
Royal Irish Academy admits 28 new members
The Irish Times view on Thomas Kinsella: a forensic mind
Kinsella’s oeuvre includes some of the finest longer meditative sequences by any contemporary Irish poet
Hodges Figgis: A 250-year-old story of selling books
‘On Christmas Eve there was always a sherry reception for the customers’
Eavan Boland: Intimate portrait of the poet’s life and work
TV Review: Excellent documentary uncovers the impetus behind Boland’s poems
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