Carter’s best-known book, Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, was published in 2004 when a younger generation might not have fully appreciated how oppressive life was for gay men and women in the New York of the ‘60s. David Carter (67) writer whose careful research into the Stonewall Inn uprising of 1969, a pivotal event in gay rights history, culminated in an authoritative book on the subject and helped to win the area in Greenwich Village where the episode occurred a listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
She died of a stroke in Dublin, Ireland on April 27, 2020. Her poems had a personal side, and a feminine side, that work by male poets often did not. Boland's numerous volumes of poetry earned her many accolades, including a lifetime achievement award in 2017 at the Irish Book Awards. Boland acknowledged that her emergence and that of other women on the Irish literary landscape was unsettling in a land where “poet” generally meant William Butler Yeats, Seamus Heaney, and other men. Art and Literature Eavan Boland (75) Irish poet who began publishing her poetry in the mid-‘60s in Ireland and soon became one of the most prominent women on the male-dominated literary landscape of that country.
