 Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold | | 3,033 (3,035) | 57 | 7,228 |  (3.42) | 2 | 0 | Journalist and author Nuala O'Faolain was born in 1940 and grew up in the countryside near Dublin. Before earning a postgraduate degree in English from Oxford University, she studied English as University College, Dublin and medieval English literature at the University of Hull. She had numerous jobs including a lecturer in the English department at University College; produced programs for Open Door, a community-access documentary department at the BBC; and produced current-affairs television programs for Radio Telifis Eirann. She started writing a weekly opinion column for The Irish Times in 1986. She wrote two memoirs, Are You Somebody? (1996) and Almost There (2003), and two novels, My Dream of You (2001) and The Story of Chicago May (2006). She died of lung cancer on May 9, 2008. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman … (more) |
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Nuala O'Faolain has 2 past events. (show) Nuala O’Faolain Nuala O’Faolain reads from Reporting the U.S. in the New Ireland. Journalist and author Nuala O’Faolain speaks on "Reporting the U.S. in the New Ireland." O’Faolain’s memoirs, Are You Somebody? and Almost There, her novel, My Dream of You, and a history, The Story of Chicago May, were all New York Times bestsellers. (lampbane) Nuala O'Faolain's interview regarding her metastatic cancer Nuala O'FaolainTo listen to interview, scroll down to podcast MARIAN FINUCANE NEW PODCAST Nuala Ó Faoláin in an extremely open and moving interview with Marian Finucane. (mannoch)
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