Rosita Boland
Life
1965- ; b. Co. Clare, ed. TCD; widely travelled in Middle and Far East; author of hitching guides; Irish Times features writer; has lived in Australia, London and Dublin, where she now resides; issued Muscle Greek (1991); Sea Legs: Hitch-Hiking Around the Coast of Ireland (1992), and poetry collections; issued A Secret Map of Ireland (2005), featuring gems and curiosities of the island.
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Works Poetry, Muscle Creek (Dublin: Raven Arts Press 1991), 64pp.; Dissecting the Heart (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2003), 48pp. Also, ed., Raven Introductions, Pt. 4 ( Dublin: Raven Arts 1986), 112pp. [with Greg Delanty, et al.]
Travel, Sea Legs: Hitch-hiking the Irish Coast Alone (Dublin: New Island Books 1992), 271pp.; A Secret Map of Ireland (Dublin: New Island 2005), 280pp. [32 chaps.].
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References Katie Donovan, A. N. Jeffares & Brendan Kennelly, eds., Irelands Women (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1994), contains extracts.
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