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The name Boland was originally rendered with a prefix O,
usually as O'Bolan, or O'Beollain. The prefix has been
largely dropped now and the letter D added to the end of
the name.
The name is widely distributed in Ireland where there
were a number of originating clans (septs). The Munster
Bolands hail from the Lough Derg area, County Clare and can
claim lineage to a brother of Brian Boru, the High King
of Ireland. Another sept flourished in Sligo at Doonaltan
and Drumcliff.
Migration to Leinster in particular accounts
for a predominance of decendants still being found in
that province.
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1884-1922 
Harry Boland was born in Dublin in 1884. He grew up in Clontarf with his brother Gerry and was greatly influenced by his Father James who was involved in the IRB and the GAA. Harry fought in the Easter Rising in 1916 and was interned in Dartmoor Prison. He was released in 1917 and spent much of the next few years assisting DeVelera in America. He returned to Ireland on foot of a summons to vote in the Anglo-Irish Treaty debate which he opposed. He tried to broker a deal between Collins and DeVelera but failed. He fought in the civil war against the Free State government and participated in the rebel occupation of Blessington. On July 31st Harry Boland was shot by Free State soldiers who were attempting to arrest him. There is still a certain mystery surrounding the circumstances of his death as it is unlikely that such a skilled intelligence officer would openly register in the Grand Hotel in Skerries without expecting to be observed. The suspicion still remains that he was set up by government agents. Bolands differences with Collins were in part due to the relationship that both men had with Kitty Kiernan but they were differing politically even before the Treaty was enacted. His death was quickly followed by that of Arthur Griffith and of Michael Collins himself. Further reading: Michael Collins and the Troubles Who's Who in the War of Independence & Civil War The Irish Civil War: A Photographic Record 1922: The Birth of Irish Democracy |
1944- 
Eavan Boland was born in Dublin in 1944, and was educated in London, New York, and Dublin. During her career she has been writer in residence at Trinity College and University College Dublin. She has received honorary degrees from both University of Strathclyde (UK) and Colby College, Maine (US), as well as doctorate of Letters from the National University of Ireland. Her commitment to writing is demonstrated by her involvement with the Irish Arts Council, the Irish Academy of Letters and the International Writers Center at Washington University. She has received the O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry, and the Charity Randall Hume Citation at the International Poetry Centre in Pittsburgh and was also shortlisted for the Irish Times Literary Award in Poetry. She has published a total of twelve volumes of poetry, as well as a volume of prose called Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time Her other works include: Lost Land: Poems An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-1987 In a Time of Violence Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990 | |
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