JAM SESSION Memorial Tribute to Eavan Boland
TRIBUTE TO EAVAN BOLAND
September 24, 1944 – April 27, 2020
The Georgia Review recently published his interview with her, which they were kind enough to allow us to link as well as one from 1990 for our memorial / tribute.Here are the two articles in The George Review, including a recent one by William Walsh:
https://thegeorgiareview.com/posts/shadows-in-the-story-an-interview-with-eavan-boland/
https://thegeorgiareview.com/posts/the-woman-the-place-the-poet/
EAVAN BOLAND
Over the course of her long career, Eavan Boland emerged as one of the foremost female voices in Irish literature. Throughout her many collections of poetry, in her prose memoir Object Lessons (1995), and in her work as a noted anthologist and teacher, Boland honed an appreciation for the ordinary in life. The poet and critic Ruth Padel described Boland’s “commitment to lyric grace and feminism” even as her subjects tend to “the fabric of domestic life, myth, love, history, and Irish rural landscape.” Keenly aware of the problematic associations and troubled place that women hold in Irish culture and history, Boland always wrote out of an urge to make an honest account of female experience.
WILLIAM WALSH hosted this remembrance and tribute, with help from Dr. Donna Little and Madeline Gray Lara, May 22, through our first ZOOM “Jam Session.” With a heavy and joyous heart, we put forth this tribute to the life and lyricism of Eavan Boland.
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