Tim hilton nuala ofaolain biography
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Nuala OFaolain
Life
; b. 1 March , Dublin, 2nd of nine children; dg. of Tomás Ó Nuaillain, prominent broadcaster, journalist [pseud. Terry OSullivan in The Irish Press] and philanderer, and an alcoholic mother, as narrated in her autobiogrphical writings (there was a savage lack of love); ed.Tim hilton nuala ofaolain biographyat a St. Louis Convent in Monaghan, UCD (grad. English), Hull (Med. Lit.), and Oxford (BPhil.); appt. lecturer of English at UCD; moved to London and worked as producer making programmes for the Open University, and afterwards for the BBC; published Irish Women and Writing in Modern Ireland, claiming that there had not been a major woman-writer; |
| joined RTE in ; worked with Larkin and Berger, and taughted occasionally at Morley College; produced Plain Tales (RTE TV), based on the lives of ordinary - or not so ordinary - woman; winner of Jacobs Award, ; hired as columnist by The Irish Times, ; raised feminist objection to the
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