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A Radiant Life: The Selected Journalism of Nuala O'Faolain
A Radiant Life presents the unequivocal voice of Nuala O'Faolain tackling a vast range of subjects from Catholicism to feminism, from Sinatra to Africa, and from Irish American culture to Islam and the West. Curious and funny, tender and scathing, O'Faolain's columns were never less than trenchant and were always passionate. "I was blinded by the habit of translating every...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
March 1st 2011
by Harry N. Abrams
(first published 2010)
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The columns in this collection of Nuala O'Faolin's writing appeared between 1986 and 2008, and as often happens with collections of newspaper work, not all of the writing here has stood the test of time. Not that the writing is ever less than excellent -- O'Faolain always writes incisively and well -- but the march of time has reduced the relevance of some of this work. In addition, several selections spin off of news of the day in Ireland which, however horrific or riveting there, never became...more
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Anything I know about life in midcentury Ireland I owe to Nuala O’Faolain’s two wonderful memoirs; from this essay collection I learned much about change in that country during the 1990s. I am grateful that I caught O'Faolain on her last book tour (she was fierce, brilliant, unforgettable) and lament her untimely death.
intéressante suite d’articles qui accompagnent l’é(ré)volution de l’Irlande des années 90 à 2007, la transformation d’une population rurale, pauvre et profondément catholique, vers une société moderne, les maux dont a souffert l’Irlande en raison de d’un système patriarcal et d’une soumission à l’église catholique jamais questionnés. La situations des femmes est analysée avec force et conviction par cette «féministe» irlandaise....more
(3.5) I love the charm of her voice, and I loved reading about Irish life. Some day I will see her country.
If I lived in Ireland & knew all of the news stories O'faolain wrote about the book would have held more interest, but I don't & it didn't.
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Nuala O'Faolain is an Irish journalist, columnist and writer who attended a convent school in the north of Ireland, studied English at University College, Dublin, and medieval English literature at the University of Hull before earning a postgraduate degree in English from Oxford.
She returned to University College as a lecturer in the English department, and later was journalist, TV producer, boo...more
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