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]