Career and Personal Life
Following a visit to Kerry he became concerned about the lack of literacy among the native population, he also had a keen interest in the Irish Language.
In 1908 Boland was appointed a member of the commission for the foundation of the National University of Ireland.
From 1926 to 1947 he was General Secretary of the Catholic Truth Society.
He married Eileen Moloney (1876–1937), in 1902, she was the daughter of an Australian Dr Patrick Moloney.
He had one son and five daughters; his daughter Honor Crowley (née Boland) succeeded her husband Fred Crowley upon his death sitting as Fianna Fáil TD for South Kerry from 1945 until 1966, when she died. His daughter Bridget Boland was a playwright who wrote the The Prisoner.
He received a papal knighthood, becoming a Knight of St. Gregory in recognition for his work in Education, and in 1950 he was awarded an honorary doctorate of Laws by the NUI.
He died at his home in London on St. Patrick's Day 1958.
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