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Eavan Boland Progress and background
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There is great irony in the fact that I am putting the finishing touches to this blog post the morning after the dreadful terrorist attack on Paris on Friday 13th November 2015. The great sense of outrage and helplessness described in this poem after the events of 17th May 1974 transcends time and place. All Irish thoughts and prayers are with the innocent victims of this barbaric premeditated attack on the people of France.
Child of our Time
For Aengus
Yesterday I knew no lullaby
But you have taught me overnight to order
This song, which takes from your final cry
Its tune, from your unreasoned end its reason;
Its rhythm from the discord of your murder
Its motive from the fact you cannot listen.
We who should have known how to instruct
With rhymes for your waking, rhythms for your sleep,
Names for the animals you took to bed,
Tales to distract, legends to protect
Later an idiom for you to keep
And living, learn, must learn from you dead,
To make our broken images, rebuild
Themselves around your limbs, your broken
Image, find for your sake whose life our idle
Talk has cost, a new language. Child
Of our time, our times have robbed your cradle.
Sleep in a world your final sleep has woken.
– • Irish poet, author, and professor (1944–2020) Eavan Boland Boland, 1996 Kevin Casey Eavan Aisling Boland[1] (ee-VANASH-ling BOH-lənd;[2] 24 September 1944 – 27 April 2020) was an Irish poet, author, and professor. She was a professor at Stanford University, where she had taught from 1996.[3][4] Her work deals with the Irish national identity, and the role of women in Irish history.[4] A number of poems from Boland's poetry career are studied by Irish students who take the Leaving Certificate. She was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. Boland's father, Frederick Boland, was a career diplomat and her mother, Frances Kelly, was a noted painter. She was born in Dublin in 1944. When she was six, Boland's fat Eavan Boland
Born Eavan Aisling Boland
(1944-09-24)24 September 1944
Dublin, IrelandDied 27 April 2020(2020-04-27) (aged 75)
Dublin, IrelandOccupation Poet, author, professor Language English Alma mater Trinity College Dublin Period 1962–2020 Notable awards Jacob's Award
1976 Spouse Children 2 Relatives Frederick Boland (father)
Frances Kelly (mother)Early life and education
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