Harry Boland (basketball)
Harry Boland was an Irish businessman, and a basketball player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
Biography
Henry Boland was born in Marino, Dublin, Ireland in 1925. He was named in honor of his uncle, Harry Boland, a prominent activist and politician during the Irish revolutionary period. His father, Gerald Boland, and his brother Kevin Boland held significant roles within Fianna Fáil and served as senior ministers in the Irish government.Boland was a close friend of Charles Haughey. They knew each other from childhood, having both attended St. Joseph's C.B.S. in Fairview. In 1946, he graduated from University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. In 1950, he and Haughey set up the accountancy firm Haughey, Boland & Co. Haughey later left to pursue his political career.