My grandparents emigrated from Counties Sligo, Limerick, and Cork. Fittingly, the first book I took out of the children’s ...

Not as easily recognized are intriguing women who contributed ... playwright, poet, historian, and as a political activist during the Irish Civil War in 1921-1922. She spent time in prison and ...

“There was no place in Irish poetry for women,” Boland’s friend, poet and novelist Theo Dorgan, told CNN. Referencing Boland’s seminal 1982 book “Night Feed,” he said, “a lot of ...

Daljit Nagra selects No Egos No Divas: New Poets in Irish. Presented by poet and academic Louis de Paor. From 2019. Show more Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects No ...

Boland, who died in 2020, was one of the foremost women in Irish literature, publishing many collections of poetry, a memoir "Object Lessons" (1995), as well as teaching and lecturing in Ireland ...