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Tribute to Nuala O’Faolain at the New York Public Library Draws Overflow Crowd and Literary Lights

By Womens Voices for Change
How does a public tribute to an extraordinary friend and international literary figure who died too soon and too quickly avoid a sentimentality that the subject herself would have found wretched? Let me tell you. Have Sheridan Hay and John Low Beer organize and program the thing. Tuesday night’s service for Nuala O’Faolain, who died in May after a three-month…
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Tribute to Nuala O’Faolain
New York Memorial Set for June 24

By Womens Voices for Change
Editor’s NoteOn May 9, around midnight in a small hospice in Dublin, writer Nuala O’Faolain died after an implausibly, ridiculously, brutally brief illness. The worlds of literature, politics and feminism shook, and a traffic of laments and tributes are gathering still, in newspapers and on radio. Many of us who somehow got enough right in our lives to become friends…
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