Irish author and journalist Nuala O'Faolain died of cancer this past Friday. She was 68 years old.

Well known internationally for her best-selling memoir, Are You Somebody? (1996), O'Faolain had given an emotional radio interview to friend, Irish broadcaster Marian Finucane, just four weeks earlier, six weeks after being first diagnosed.

April 2008 interview with Nuala O'Faolain in the Irish Independent
Review of The Story of Chicago May by Nuala O'Faolain