This paper examines the intersection of the discourses of nationalism and gender. The study focuses on the Irish case and examines selected poems by the Irish poet, Eavan Boland, in which she attempts to revisit and subvert the oppressive concepts that shape women's identity in the Irish literary tradition. These concepts are attributed to the representation of the nation as female and the gender injustices inherent in the nationalist ideology. The research discusses the foundational theoretical concepts on nationalism and explores the most eminent critical claims on its gendered nature. The paper further examines the post-independence conditions and the nationalist agenda in Ireland as well as the poetic position of Eavan Boland towards nationalist considerations and her intellectual reflections on Irish literary patriarchy and its conventions of the feminine as related to national ideals.