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. . . We love fog becauseit shifts old anomalies into the elementssurrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

Eavan Boland Domestic Violence: Poems poetry

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 cultur…

Eavan Boland time identity political

It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exc…

Eavan Boland religion imagination

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

Eavan Boland life language shadows

I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewit…

Eavan Boland life mother wife

In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting rea…

Eavan Boland

When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a g…

Eavan Boland

I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed. One word was used to invoke collective nurture, the other …

Eavan Boland

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 subur…

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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…

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The old plural of Eye.

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AND STILL ___

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