[1] Frederick Boland was born on 11 January 1904 at 32 Eden Vale Road, Ranelagh,[2] the second son of Henry Patrick ("H.P.")

Boland (1876-1956), a civil servant in the Department of Posts and Telegraphs (retiring as Senior Assistant Secretary to the Minister for Finance), and his wife Charlotte Nolan Taylor.

[citation needed] He married the painter Frances Kelly on 11 February 1935 in the Church of St Michael, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland.

"[11] He served as the first Irish Ambassador to the Court of St James's in London from 1950 to 1956, a move generally attributed to his inability to work harmoniously with Seán MacBride (Minister for External Affairs 1948–51).

Boland was the president of the General Assembly of the United Nations on 12 October 1960, when Nikita Khrushchev allegedly took off his shoe and pounded it on his desk.