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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Attention Child Conversation Erratic Fifth Foggy Last Queue Teenager

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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Ballads Battles Belonging Childhood Defeats Dock Eventually Fuse Had History Insistence Irish Learned Lost Me Nation National Never New New Way Occurred Offer Only Past Power Read Spaces Speeches Studied Tradition Tried Vivid Way Would

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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Began Could Culture Depend Had Honored Idea Ireland Life Light Literary Little Poet Poetry Poets Poor Reaction Sponsored Still Stood Sympathetic Time Were Work Write

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At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Age Attempts City Edge First Flat Left Poetry Room School Seventeen University Wrote

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The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: After Began Century Cultural Desires Each Failed Famine Forties Half Identity Independence Ireland Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Other Political Riffs Second Self-Determination Series Shape Sixties Time

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In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and with two little daughters, I led a life which would have been recognizable to any woman who had led it and to many others who had not.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Any Been Daughters Dublin Fiction Found Had House Led Life Little Many Married Mountains Myself Others Recognizable Suburban Thirties Two Use Which Who Woman Would

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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Access Apparent Around Children Declined Had Increased Interest Lived Married Me Poem Political Sensed Small Small Children Suburb Thirties Twenties

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One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Among Authority Been Doing Engaged Notions One Of The Things Other Parts Poem Poetic Poets Self Things Within Women

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I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: After Before Bent Contradiction English Explored Forms Hundreds Hundreds Of Years Irish Men Night Over Saw Sealed Table Woman Wrote Years

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As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be simplified. The voice of a woman poet would, I was sure, have precluded such distortion. It did not exist.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Absence Allowed As Far As Concerned Did Distortion Exist Far Poems Poet Poetic Sure Tradition Voice Which Woman Women Would

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: September 24th, 1944

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