Nuala ofaolain documentary youtube

Nuala and Nell have been part of the nation's life, through the women's movement that liberated Ireland, and through the stories of their own lives that are part of our fabric

By Susan McKay 

It is an interview that will be replayed and remembered.

Extraordinary. Haunting. Shot through with fragments of desolate beauty which have the resonance of poetry. Hard to listen to without tears.

Nuala ofaolain documentary youtube

Hard to listen to without cringing, occasionally. Hard to imagine the impulse of a dying woman to confide her most private thoughts, not in those she loves and who love her, but across the airwaves, in the nation.

But then, to Nuala O'Faolain, the people who read her and who listen to her on the radio, are those in whom she confides: “Company for me who happens to be a childless middle aged woman”, she said of those who responded to her bestselling memoir, Are You Somebody?

When Marian Finucane asked her about her conversations about her imminent death w