Her father was a diplomat who served as Irish ambassador to the Court of St. James's in London from 1950 to 1956, and as Irish ambassador to the United Nations from 1956 to 1964. Her mother, a painter who studied in Paris with the postexpressionists in the 1930s, has works in the Dublin Municipal Gallery. Both her parents "were profoundly influential" on her poetry. Her father was a medalist in law and the classics at Trinity College, Dublin, and did postgraduate work at Harvard and the University of Chicago. Boland believes she "intuitively saw in him the values of civilization and enlightenment." Her mother, on the contrary, "had no formal academic training, nor any particular respect for it," and "deplored the academic in art."
Because of her father's diplomatic career Boland had an itinerant childhood. After a year at Miss Meredith's School in Dublin, she attended a convent school in London from 1950 to 1956, then the Convent of the Sacred Heart School in New York City from 1956 to 1959.
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