Eavan Boland: Poems

Death and legacy

Boland was writer in residence at the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, in 1994. During this time she composed 'Night Feed' and 'The Tree of Life', and her work remains on a plaque in the hospital garden.[7][8]

Boland died in Dublin on 27 April 2020, aged 75.[21][22][23][24]

In 2020, Boland was posthumously awarded the Costa Book Award for poetry for her final collection The Historians.[25]


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