Eavan Boland Quotes
The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.
Boland, Eavan. Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time. W. W. Norton & Company, 1995, p. 130.
He had been exiled to the United States.
He later settled for Home Rule in the Irish Treaty of 1922
The Texans wanted independence from Mexico and this quotation illustrates their three possible alternatives. Most Texans wanted to join the United State, but the United States was not very enthusiastic about having Texas. In a sense, Texas was made up of the malcontents, failures and riffraff from the United States. Many felt the nation was good to be rid of them. So initially, Texas was an independent republic. However, public and elite opinion began to change, and finally Texas was admitted.
He was elected to Parliament while in jail and never took his seat as he died as the result of a hunger strike in jail.
Eavan Aisling Boland was an Irish poet, author, and professor. She was a professor at Stanford University, where she had taught from 1996. Her work deals with the Irish national identity, and the role of women in Irish history. 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.
