A Quote by Eavan Boland

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.

Eavan Boland

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Independence After Began Century Cultural Desires Determination Each Failed Famine Forties Half Identity Ireland Nineteenth Century Other Political Riffs Second Self Self-Determination Series Shape Sixties Time

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Eavan Boland
Irish - Poet
Born: September 24, 1944

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