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Eavan Boland quotes

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

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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.

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