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Editor Julie Grau Pays Tribute to Nuala O’Faolain

By Womens Voices for Change
The following remarks were read at the tribute to Nuala O’Faolain, held June 24, 2008 at the New York Public Library. Click here to read more about the tribute, as well as the remarks of Sheridan Hay. For Nuala, at the New York Public Library By Julie Grau, Editor/Publisher Some time in 1997, Michael Jacobs, who was then working as…
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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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