SOURCE: "Mad Ireland Hurts Her Too," in Nation, June 6, 1994, pp. 798-802.
In the following review, Castro states that "the real beauty of reading the poems [in In a Time of Violence lies in discovering the difficulty in each and the delicacy with which Boland dismantles icons associated with Irish tradition and culture."]
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