Trinity College Dublin names its Brutalist library after Irish female poet Eavan Boland, the first building named after a woman in the famous university’s 433 years.

The Irish poet Eavan Boland, who died in 2020, was the epitome of a figure she described as an “exile in search of a self”. Born in Dublin in 1944, she had a splintered childhood: she moved to ...

Trinity College Dublin names its Brutalist library after Irish female poet Eavan Boland, the first building named after a ...

Trinity College Dublin names its Brutalist library after Irish female poet Eavan Boland, the first building named after a woman in the famous university’s 433 years.

“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, ...

“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, ...

“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, ...

By Kathy Rose O’Brien, CNN Dublin (CNN) — Trinity College Dublin may have been founded by Queen Elizabeth I, but for over 400 years every building on the prestigious university campus has been ...