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2009/10/07

2002.12刊。原著は1996刊。Amazonに訳者である桜内篤子さんからのメッセージがレビューとして掲載されていましたが現在読めないようです。

以下、BBC Radio4 Last Word（Friday 16th May 2008）のＨＰより。8月30日にはじめて知りました。御冥福をお祈りします。

Nuala O'Faolain
Irish journalist, writer and commentator who has died aged 68

The Irish writer Nuala O’Faolain treated her diagnosis with cancer with the same searing and personal honesty that she’d treated the rest of her life. Perhaps best known outside her home country for her memoir “Are You Somebody” published in 1996, Nuala was already a household name in Ireland for her column in the Irish Times and her work on TV.
She was a feminist, an intellectual and one of the people who helped to re-define the role of women in Irish society during the 1970s and 80s. She never married or had children although she had passionate relationships with a number of men – and one, for over thirteen years, with a woman – the journalist and civil rights activist Nell McCafferty.
It was typical of Nuala that – a month before she died and having refused any further treatment for her cancer - she chose to give a bleak, honest and uncompromising interview to her friend the RTE Radio 1 presenter Marian Finucane.
Matthew Bannister talks to Marian Finucane and the former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson.

Nuala O'Faolain was born in 1940. She died May 9th 2008.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/lastword_16may2008.shtml