Nuala O'Faolain (/ˈnuːlə oʊ ˈfweɪlɑːn/; 1 March 1940 – 9 May 2008) was an Irish journalist, television producer, book reviewer, teacher and writer.
[2] She taught for a time at Morley College and worked as a television producer for the BBC and RTÉ.
O'Faolain described her early life as growing up in a Catholic country which in her view feared sexuality and forbade her even information about her body.
[3] In her writings she often discusses her frustration at the sexism and rigidity of roles in Catholic Ireland that expected her to marry and have children, neither of which she did.
[5] From 2002 until her death, O'Faolain lived much of the time with Brooklyn-based attorney John Low-Beer and his daughter Anna.