Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us. Eavan Boland complexitydependman Change image and share on social
I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention. Eavan Boland attentionchildconversation Change image and share on social
There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs. Eavan Boland fieldforcehumiliation share on social
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 colloquialdaughterdublin share on social
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 ageattemptcity Change image and share on social
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 absenceallowconcern share on social
