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Eavan Boland: A life in pictures

Mon 27 Apr 2020
Poet Eavan Boland, who died on Monday at the age of 75
Poet Eavan Boland, who died on Monday at the age of 75
1969: Eavan Boland on her wedding day to Kevin Casey. Her father Frederick Boland is also in the photograph, taken outside the Sacred Heart Church, Donnybrook, Dublin. Photograph: Jack McManus
1969: Eavan Boland on her wedding day to Kevin Casey. Her father Frederick Boland is also in the photograph, taken outside the Sacred Heart Church, Donnybrook, Dublin. Photograph: Jack McManus
1988:  Poet Eavan Boland Poet with her husband Kevin Casey and their  two daughters, Sarah and Eavan Frances, at their home in Dundrum, Co Dublin.  Photograph: The Irish Times
1988: Poet Eavan Boland Poet with her husband Kevin Casey and their two daughters, Sarah and Eavan Frances, at their home in Dundrum, Co Dublin. Photograph: The Irish Times
March 1992:  -  Poets Nuala Ní Dhomhnail and Eavan Boland at a  poetry reading celebrating    International Women's Day in the Abbey Theatre.  Photograph: Matt Kavanagh
March 1992: - Poets Nuala Ní Dhomhnail and Eavan Boland at a poetry reading celebrating International Women's Day in the Abbey Theatre. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh
April 1992: Poet Evan Boland at her home.  Photograph: Joe St Leger
April 1992: Poet Evan Boland at her home. Photograph: Joe St Leger
1994: Poet Eavan Boland reading from her collection of poems,  In a Time of Violence, at a lunch in Doheny and Nesbitt's pub.  Photograph: Eric Luke
1994: Poet Eavan Boland reading from her collection of poems, In a Time of Violence, at a lunch in Doheny and Nesbitt's pub. Photograph: Eric Luke
Poet Eavan  Boland with New Yorker magazine poetry editor Alice Quinn and editor David Remnick at  the New Yorker Festival
Poet Eavan Boland with New Yorker magazine poetry editor Alice Quinn and editor David Remnick at the New Yorker Festival
1997: Eavan Boland with the Polish Nobel prize winning poet Czeslan Milosz on Inis Mór for the Aran Islands Poetry Festival.  Photograph: Joe O'Shaughnessy
1997: Eavan Boland with the Polish Nobel prize winning poet Czeslan Milosz on Inis Mór for the Aran Islands Poetry Festival. Photograph: Joe O'Shaughnessy
2006:  Eavan  Boland and fellow poet Paula Meehan  at the Bank of Ireland Arts Centre for a  reading. Photograph: Alan Betson
2006: Eavan Boland and fellow poet Paula Meehan at the Bank of Ireland Arts Centre for a reading. Photograph: Alan Betson
Eavan Boland and Mary Robinson at Trinity College Dublin.
Eavan Boland and Mary Robinson at Trinity College Dublin.
Poet Eavan Boland
Poet Eavan Boland

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