However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

McGoohan also stated that he was influenced by his experience from theater, including his work in Orson Welles ' 1955 play Moby Dick Rehearsed and the 1962 BBC teleplay The Prisoner by Bridget Boland.

The screenplay is an adaptation by Bridget Boland, John Hale and Richard Sokolove of the 1948 play by Maxwell Anderson ; Anderson's blank verse format was retained for only portions of the screenplay, such as Anne's soliloquy in the Tower of London, but then again, Anderson did not use blank verse throughout the play either, only in portions of it.

Michael Burger was chosen as host of this revived version of the show, while Paul Boland served as its announcer.

The other side, including what became the town of Little Mountain, was owned by Abraham N. Boland.

Abraham Noah Boland was appointed as postmaster of the Little Mountain Post Office in 1888.

The town was incorporated and Boland became the first mayor of the town.

Later a one-room school building was built on an acre of land donated by Noah Boland.

The first of the chiefs was Fearchar, Earl of Ross from the O ' Beolain ( Ó Beólláin, Boland, Bolan ) family, also known as ' Fearchar Mac-an-t-sagairt ' ( meaning " son of the priest ") of Applecross.

Boland resigned in sympathy, while Micheál Ó Móráin was dismissed one day earlier in a preemptive strike to ensure a subservient Minister for Justice was in place when the crisis broke.

The Boland Amendment was the name given to three U. S. legislative amendments between 1982 and 1984, all aimed at limiting U. S. government assistance to the Contras in Nicaragua.

The first Boland Amendment was to the House Appropriations Bill of 1982, which was attached as a rider to the Defense Appropriations Act of 1983, named for the Massachusetts Democrat, Representative Edward Patrick Boland, who authored it.

Poet Eavan Boland said: " I was not then, nor am I now, comfortable with the idea of belonging to something where there are exemptions involved ," although she added that she would " hate to see it disappear ".

It was based on the 1958 novel by John Boland and adapted by Bryan Forbes, who also starred in the film.

The decision in the late 1950s to demolish a row of Georgian houses in Kildare Place and replace them with a brick wall was greeted with jubilation by a republican minister at the time, Kevin Boland, who said they stood for everything he opposed.

Four ministers, Charles Haughey, Neil Blaney, Kevin Boland and Micheál Ó Móráin, were either sacked, or resigned, or simply retired from the government due to the scandal that was about to unfold.

Blaney was unimpressed with the choice and, with the support of the like-minded Kevin Boland, he threw his hat in the ring, declaring himself to be the " Radical Republican " candidate.

Boland resigned in sympathy, while Micheál Ó Móráin was dismissed one day earlier in a preemptive strike to ensure that he was not the Minister for Justice when the crisis broke.

Following his expulsion from Fianna Fáil, Kevin Boland tried to persuade Blaney to join the Aontacht Éireann party he was creating but Blaney declined.

Gerald Boland (; 25 May 1885 – 5 January 1973 ) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician.

* 1870 – John Pius Boland, Irish tennis player and politician ( d. 1958 )

* August 5 – Harry Boland, Irish republican ( b. 1887 )

* Boland, F, Diminished Responsibility as a Defence in Irish Law, ( 1995 ) 5 Irish Criminal Law Journal 193.

* Boland, F, Diminished Responsibility as a Defence in Irish Law: Past English Mistakes and Future Irish Directions, ( 1996 ) 5 Irish Criminal Law Journal 19.

Instead of attending to his studies to secure an engineering diploma, Boland took Irish language and history classes at night.

Following the end of the Irish Civil War, during which his brother Harry was killed, Boland helped to build up Sinn Féin as the main Republican party.

Kevin Boland ( 15 October 1917 – 23 September 2001 ) was an Irish politician.

After this episode Boland founded his own political party, Aontacht Éireann ( Irish Unity ).

John J. Boland ( 30 November 1944 – 14 August 2000 ) was an Irish Fine Gael politician.

Boland is a ( usually ) Irish surname ( Ó Beólláin ).

Boland is a surname of Irish origin.

* Eavan Boland ( born 1944 ), Irish poet

* Frederick Boland ( 1904 – 1985 ), Irish government minister and ambassador ; father of Eavan Boland

* Gerald Boland ( 1885 – 1973 ), Irish nationalist and politician ; TD for Roscommon and government minister ; brother of Harry Boland

* Harry Boland ( 1887 – 1922 ), Irish nationalist ; brother of Gerald Boland

* Joey Boland ( contemporary ), Irish hurler

* John Boland ( 1944 – 2000 ), Irish Fine Gael politician ; TD for Dublin County North

Harry Boland was born in Phibsborough, Dublin on 27 April 1887, the son of Irish Republican Brotherhood member James Boland and Kate Woods.

Boland remained involved with the IRB during the War of Independence and was opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921.

They began by drilling a small number of IRB associated with the Dublin Gaelic Athletic Association, led by Harry Boland.

Collins persuaded the IRB Council to approve the Treaty with Britain, while its former leader Harry Boland was bitterly against it.