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June 24 in New York: Paul Muldoon and Others Pay Tribute to Nuala O’Faolain

Filed under: On the Spot Tagged: books, events, fiction, Fintan O’Toole, Frank McCourt, Ireland, John Low-Beer, Julie Grau, memoirs, music, nonfiction, Nuala O’Faolain, Paul Muldoon, Polly Devlin, Sheridan Hay

From the New York Public Library's website:

A Tribute to NUALA O'FAOLAIN

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
at 7:00 PM
Celeste Bartos Forum
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
5th Avenue and 42nd Street (directions)

THIS EVENT IS FREE but reservations are required. Make reservations.

Friends and fellow Irish writers of Nuala O’Faolain, who died in Dublin on May 9, will gather to pay tribute to one of Ireland’s best-loved writers.

Internationally known for her searing memoir, Are You Somebody, as well as her acclaimed first novel, My Dream of You, O’Faolain was widely respected in Ireland as an award-winning television producer, journalist, and columnist for The Irish Times before her memoir caused a sensation on its publication in 1999. Her unblinking, unsentimental description of an impoverished Irish childhood that struck a chord with readers world-wide became a New York Times bestseller.

Frank McCourt, Paul Muldoon, Fintan O’Toole, Polly Devlin, Julie Grau, Sheridan Hay, John Low-Beer, and others will honor Nuala O’Faolain’s life with reminiscence, traditional music, and readings from her work.

Special live musical performance by vocalist Susan McKeown, guitarist Eamon O'Leary, fiddler Dana Lyn, and piper Ivan Goff. During March 2005, McKeown appeared with O'Faolain at LIVE from the NYPL.

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