Frances Josephine Kelly (14 February 1908 – 2002; usually known as Judy Boland), was an Irishpainter.[1][2][3][4] She is known for being the wife of Frederick Boland, an Irish diplomat who served as the United Nations representative for Ireland. By the age of twenty seven, when she married, she had attained prominence as a painter.[5]
Early life
Kelly was born on 14 February 1908 in Coolagh Bridge, Drogheda, Louth, Ireland to James and Marion Kelly (née Shields).[6][7] On 11 February 1935, she married Irish diplomat Frederick Boland in the Church of St Michael, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland.[8][9] They had a son, Fergal and four daughters; Jane, Nessa, Mella, and the poet Eavan Boland.[10][11][12]
She died 20 August 2002 in Donnybrook, Dublin.[14]
References
^"[Table of Contents]". PN Review. 412 (2). 2014. Archived from the original on 27 June 2023. Retrieved 13 September 2023. Cover image: a portrait of Eavan Boland as a child, by her mother, the painter Frances Kelly (1908–2002).
^Eavan Boland, Jody Allen Randolph, Bucknell University Press, 2014, p. 14
^Eavan Boland, Jody Allen Randolph, Bucknell University Press, 2014, p. 16
^Quirke genealogy and family history: of Clonmel, county Tipperary, Ireland; India, New Zealand, England, Australia, South Africa, and the United States, Terence T. Quirke, 2005, p. 183
^Eavan Boland, Jody Allen Randolph, Bucknell University Press, 2014, p. xx
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