... the history of “horror and shame” (2013, 1) surrounding the Famine and the reversal of this shame in the memorial culture that reached its peak in the mid-1990s (when many of the poems referenced here were written and published). Copyright © Hofstra University 2017 Cultural memory Eavan Boland...

..., demonstrating the interdependence of personal and intellectual life. Essays and interviews also exemplify these attitudes. Notably, Eavan Boland structures Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time around her own quest to harmonize the roles identified in her subtitle. Admitting...

... workhouses for the waves of destitute immigrants from the countryside. Yet, the geography of the Ordnance Survey served as the template for virtually all professionally produced maps until well af­ ter independence. Eavan Boland’s 1994 poem “That the Science of Car­ tography is Limited” speaks...

... male authority, and to accept limited control over the course of their lives. Shannon notes that the poetry, prose, drama, and painting produced by creative artists such as Eavan Boland, Nuala ni Dhomhnaill, Mary Leland, Marina Carr, Garry Hynes, Pauline Cummins, and Rita Duffy...