Irish writer Nuala O’Faolain, 88
Posted: Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 2:18 pmNuala O’Faolain, journalist and writer, was born on March 1, 1940. She died of cancer on May 9, 2008, aged 68
Nuala O’Faolain, then 55, had been writing a current affairs column on The Irish Times for almost ten years and was rather feeling that life had passed her by when, in 1995, a publisher offered to make a book out of the best of her articles. To show where she was coming from, she decided to write a short introduction about her own life.
It ended up as a book of more than 200 pages entitled Are You Somebody? — The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman, spilling the beans on her dysfunctional background and her rather disordered love life. She revealed a 15-year lesbian affair with her fellow-columnist Nell McCafferty that had just ended, like her previous romances with men, in tears. …Read full obituary
