Eavan Boland - A Transatlantic Tribute

Presented by Poetry Ireland, Irish Arts Center, and the Embassy of Ireland to the United States.
This tribute to the artist comes a month after her passing, and will include some of Ireland and America’s finest writers, alongside political leaders, diplomats, activists and academics who revered Eavan as a poet, teacher, colleague and friend. Contributors include former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson; Mayor of Seattle Jenny Durkan; Ireland’s Ambassador to the US, Daniel Mulhall, and Permanent Representative to the UN, Geraldine Byrne Nason; Kevin Young, poetry editor of the New Yorker; novelists & short story writers Tobias Wolff and Belinda McKeon; poets Paula Meehan, Alvy Carragher, Marie Howe and Solmaz Sharif; musician Loah and Poetry Aloud winner Michael Tient among its many guest speakers and readers from across the United States and Ireland. Hosted by Maureen Kennelly , of the Arts Council of Ireland; Rachael Gilkey, of the Irish Arts Center; and Christina Ablaza , of Stanford’s Creative Writing Program.
Cherished as perhaps the outstanding poet of her generation, Eavan Boland’s imprint as an artist was truly global. But nowhere, outside of Ireland, was her influence more deeply felt than in the United States.
Born in Dublin, she wrote her first collection while studying at Trinity College, emerging as a poet into a literary scene where women were few and far between. Raising a family in suburban Dublin, her early writing was characterised by a focus on the inner lives of people, particularly women, who were excluded from the poetry canon.
As a young woman herself, Eavan had lived for a time in New York, while her father, Frederick Boland, served as Ireland’s Permanent Representative to the UN. In 2018, she returned to the UN Headquarters, reciting from “From Our Future Will Become the Past of Other Women”, a poem commissioned from her by the Government of Ireland to mark the centenary of women’s suffrage in Ireland. Her influence on the East Coast extended through the decades, including as a regular contributor to The New Yorker.
As Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Stanford for a quarter century, she guided the artistic development of some of America’s finest young writers and was revered as a teacher by thousands more. She played an equally inspiring role to emerging Irish writers through her position as editor of Poetry Ireland Review and through other involvements in Irish literature and culture. With the transatlantic focus to her life and work, she continually promoted connections between Irish and American artists.

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