Through critical and creative responses, Eavan Boland: Inside History reappraises Boland's influence as a poet and critic for the twenty-first century. The fresh and diverse approaches in this volume, edited by poets Siobhan Campbell and Nessa O'Mahony, provide a new frame for a critical engagement which crosses continental and aesthetic boundaries. In reading the poetry of Boland anew, this volume re-positions Boland scholarship with a focus on the most important aspect: the work itself.
With a foreword by Mary Robinson, Eavan Boland consists of essays, poems and interviews by Jody Allen Randolph, Dermot Bolger, Patricia Boyle Haberstroh, Siobhan Campbell, Moya Cannon, Lucy Collins, Gerald Dawe, P ter Dolm nyos, Katie Donovan, Thomas Kinsella, Michael Longley, Thomas McCarthy, Medbh McGuckian, Nigel McLoughlin, Paula Meehan, John Montague, Sinead Morrissey, Paul Muldoon, Christine Murray, Eile n Ni Chuillean in, Nuala N Dhomhnaill, Jean O'Brien, Nessa O'Mahony, Gerard Smyth, Colm T ib n and Eamonn Wall.