Poetry Ireland Hosts Transatlantic Homage to Eavan Boland

To celebrate the life and work of Eavan Boland, Poetry Ireland, Irish Arts Center, and the Embassy of Ireland to the United States hosted a live reading via Zoom. According to Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Ireland's National Public Service Broadcaster:

Contributors include former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson; Mayor of Seattle Jenny Durkan; Ireland’s Ambassador to the US, Daniel Mulhall, and Permanent Representative to the UN, Geraldine Byrne Nason; Kevin Young, poetry editor of the New Yorker; novelists & short story writers Tobias Wolff and Belinda McKeon; poets Paula Meehan, Alvy Carragher, Marie Howe and Solmaz Sharif; musician Loah and Poetry Aloud winner Michael Tient among its many guest speakers and readers from across the United States and Ireland. 

Join the celebration at RTE.