Julia O'Faolain

JOF , twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish novelist and short-story writer, also published translation, memoir, and women's history, and wrote an afterword to the memoirs of her writer father. Her fiction deals with the confrontation or the blurring of different cultures (most commonly involving Irish culture, but sometimes Italian) and of competing political visions, with memory and forgetting, and with idealistic violence and terrorism. She herself said her topics include politics, fairness, bullying, Church tyranny and those who opposed it.
O’Faolain, Julia. Trespassers, A Memoir. Faber and Faber, 2014.
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  • BirthName: Anna Julia O'Faolain
    The name Anna was given after an aunt who later went mad.
    O’Faolain, Julia. Trespassers, A Memoir. Faber and Faber, 2014.
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    The surname is also spelt, especially in connection with Julia's father, Ó Faoláin.

  • Nickname: Julie
  • Married: Julia Martines

Milestones

6 June 1932

JOF was born in Teddington just outside London, the elder of the two children in her family.
O’Faolain, Sean. Vive Moi!. Editor O’Faolain, Julia, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993.
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April 1980

JOF 's No Country for Young Men adapted from one of Yeats 's best-known poems the title for a historical novel about generations of Irish nationalism and its impact on personal relationships.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)

27 November 2020

JOF died at the age of eighty-eight.

Biography

Birth and Background

6 June 1932

JOF was born in Teddington just outside London, the elder of the two children in her family.
O’Faolain, Sean. Vive Moi!. Editor O’Faolain, Julia, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993.
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