Thanks for the thoughtful observations: I happened...

2008-05-16T20:47:00.000+01:00

Thanks for the thoughtful observations: I happened to have blogged about her death yesterday, and about the interview on RTÉ with Marion Finucane the week before. Unlike you, I remain much more haunted by my demise, and I admit this was heightened by the Finucane transcript, which Maura Casey in the NY Times this week editorialized upon. O'Faolain's stoicism, anger, and resignation appears to have caused some considerable stir. Compared to the usual elixirs of chicken soup for the soul that are peddled by the media here...

I too have never read her work, although I stumbled a couple of years ago into a back room at a bookstore to find her reading to promote whatever her inevitable sequel was to "Are You Somebody." Since I bought Nell McCafferty's memoir, I might as well buy hers now! O'Faolain mourned that with each of us so much knowledge dims, but with your typically wry nod to McGuffin, perhaps that's a blessing. Intriguing if what we write online will be "eternally" visible in forms that in print will not.

Thanks for this on Nuala. I do think you'll like ...

2008-05-12T04:20:00.000+01:00

Thanks for this on Nuala. I do think you'll like her work. My mother passed Are You Somebody on to me some years ago. I haven't read it since, but remember her voice well.

'All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"-- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.'

- Mark Twain "Puddin' Head Wilson"

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Thanks for the thoughtful observations: I happened...

Thanks for this on Nuala. I do think you'll like ...