Hello Katharine,
speaking with your sister she came out pretty for chance with the name of your mother's cousin the poet Eavan Boland. I did not know anythying of that and I got very interested at first. Getting Home I tried to find out her on geni and... she was already there. I know that you are very much interested in this side your family. I understand you very well! Mrs. Boland is a very interesting character, and I got entralled by her. I did not even know of her existence but I will try to find out a few of her poems. As saying with Louisa, intelligence has a strong genetic component , and so now I understand in a better way and under a more full light the quite amazing intuition and clevernes of your mother.
The warmest Regards
to you and yours,
cousin Giacomo (James)