Castelao Gómez, IsabelRosendo Gonzalez, Jesus Mª de2024-12-192024-12-192024-06-11Rosendo Gonzalez, Jesus Mª de, 2024. Trabajo Fin de Máster: Understanding the female voices silenced by hunger: a Gender Reading of Eavan Boland’s Famine Poems. Universidad de Educación a Distancia (UNED)https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/24985Eavan Boland (1944-2020), one of the finest authors in twentieth century Irish Poetry, was the heiress of a male poetic tradition who struggled to find a distinctive female voice. In what must be considered a personal literary mission, Boland committed to bring to the present the silences of the women who lived outside history and contributed to write Ireland’s Herstory without knowing it. Nothing has contributed more to shape Ireland’s national identity than the ordeal of the Great Famine of the nineteenth century, a collective suffering which is epitomised by the icon of a starving woman in rags. This essay aims to discover that image in the handful of Boland’s poems dealing with the Famine, which are analysed and criticised from a feminist point of view.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess55 Historia::5505 Ciencias auxiliares de la historia::5505.10 Filologíaproyecto fin de carreraEavan BolandIrish PoetryWomen PoetsIrish FamineFemale Subjectivity