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Nuala – A Life and Death (2011) – A Documentary Film Screening

March 21, 2014 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

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An event every week that begins at 8:00 am on [day], repeating indefinitely

$6 – $11
Documentary Movie Night
Nuala

(2011)

click on the photo above for the trailer

 

“In her late 50s Nuala O’Faolain
wrote a memoir
that sold a million copies
and shocked
the Irish public with
its revelations of her
sexual history
and the bizarre manner
of her upbringing.
She was a woman of many,
contradictory parts: the enthusiastic

heterosexual whose most lasting
relationship was with a radical lesbian activist;
the feminist who adored a father who
openly
betrayed her mother and
neglected his family.

She came of age when Ireland
was an insular, church-dominated society
where mens’ views and concerns mattered,
and women’s hardly at all. Despite that
she lived a rich, intellectual life

working variously as a documentary film maker, literature professor, novelist, newspaper columnist and memoirist.

O’Faolain first recounted her life in
blunt
and vivid detail in her international bestselling memoir Are You Somebody?

Her story was unique in terms

of the breath of her literary
achievements and the conflicts and contradictions that bedeviled

her personal life. In 2008 she transfixed
Ireland again when, ravaged by cancer,
she turned to her friend and radio host
Marian Finucane to talk frankly about her
impending death. ‘Nuala’ is Finucane’s
journey of discovery into her friend’s life
as well as a raw and vivid testimony to
the enduring power of friendship.”
Patrick Farrelly

Evening includes a Q&A with
Patrick Farrelly, the Movie’s Director

Friday, March 21
Doors Open 7.30pm
Cocktail Hour
Showtime 8.15pm

Advance Tickets
via Paypal or Credit/Debit Card
(you do not need a Paypal account to purchase tickets)

Regular $11

Students, Seniors, Unemployed $6

 

New York Irish Center
10-40 Jackson Ave, LIC, Queens, NY 11101
718 482 0909

Last stop on the 7 before Grand Central
at Vernon Blvd./Jackson Ave.
Lots of local parking after 7pm

Details

Date:
March 21, 2014
Time:
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cost:
$6 – $11
Event Category:
Website:
www.nyirish.org

Organizer

Chris Deignan
Phone
3476654085
Email
chris@newyorkirishcenter.org
View Organizer Website

Venue

New York Irish Center
10-40 Jackson Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101 United States
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Phone
7184820909

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