Gareth O'Callaghan: Nuala O Faoláin showed us how to confront our unspoken fears
Nuala O Faoláin's memoir 'Are You Somebody?' is 30 years old this week. Gareth O'Callaghan reflects on her final interview and how she rendered Gay Byrne speechless when talking about the book
Nuala O Faoláin called her death 'this common fate'. File picture Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie
"Turn on Marian." It was a text message from my mother, and it carried a sense of urgency.
On a Saturday morning in April 2008 as I was driving home from Ballyvaughan, Marian Finucance was setting the tone for an interview with her next guest, the writer (and one of her closest friends) Nuala O Faoláin.
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