Julia O'Faolain

06 June 1932

Standard Name: O'Faolain, Julia

Birth Name: Anna Julia O'Faolain

Nickname: Julie

Married Name: Julia Martines

Used Form: Julia Ó Faoláin

Used Form: 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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Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Literary responses	Maureen Duffy	Julia O'Faolain in the Observer found MDdazzling with period speech. Duffy, Maureen. Capital. Methuen, 1984. cover
Literary responses	Jennifer Johnston	Patricia Craig in the New Statesman identified the novel's theme as illusions produced by men in the interests of power and praised its telling as by turns inspiriting, illuminating and attractively strange. qtd. in “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Julia O'Faolain 's...
Literary responses	Alice Munro	Irish writer Julia O'Faolain in the New York Times Book Review captured the flavour of Munro's writing as she perceived in this exhilarating volume a kaleidoscope of lights and depths which reflects, with conscious artistry,...

Timeline

1 January 1916

The British edition of Vogue (an American fashion magazine) began publishing from Condé Nast in Hanover Square, London.

Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.

166

White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.

British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Spawls, Alice. “Does one flare or cling?”. London Review of Books, Vol.

, No. 9, 5 May 2016, pp. 40-2.

1 November 1954

A war of rebellion began in Algeria against France, the colonial power.

Johnson, Douglas. “What did the General have in mind when he said: ’Je vous ai compris’?”. London Review of Books, 11 Nov. 1999, pp. 20-3.

20-3

By mid-October 1983

Ursula Owen , editor of Virago Press , published with them an anthology of essays: Fathers: Reflections by Daughters.

OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisition stamp.

Texts

O’Faolain, Julia. Adam Gould. Telegram Books, 2009.

O’Faolain, Julia, and Sean O’Faolain. “Afterword”. Vive Moi!, edited by Julia O’Faolain and Julia O’Faolain, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993, p. vii - xvi.

O’Faolain, Julia. Daughters of Passion. Penguin, 1982.

O’Faolain, Julia. Godded and Codded. Faber and Faber, 1970.

O’Faolain, Julia. Man in the Cellar. Faber and Faber, 1974.

O’Faolain, Julia. Melancholy Baby, and Other Stories. Poolbeg Press, 1978.

O’Faolain, Julia. No Country for Young Men. Allen Lane, 1980.

O’Faolain, Julia, and Lauro Martines, editors. Not in God’s Image: Women in History from the Greeks to the Victorians. Temple Smith, 1973.

O’Faolain, Julia. “The Furies of Irish Fiction”. The Richmond Review.

O’Faolain, Julia. The Irish Signorina. Viking, 1984.

O’Faolain, Julia. The Judas Cloth. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992.

O’Faolain, Julia. The Obedient Wife. Allen Lane, 1982.

O’Faolain, Julia. Trespassers, A Memoir. Faber and Faber, 2014.

Pitti, Buonaccorso et al. Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence. Translator O’Faolain, Julia, Harper and Row, 1967.

O’Faolain, Julia. Under the Rose. Faber and Faber, 2015.

O’Faolain, Sean. Vive Moi!. Editor O’Faolain, Julia, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993.

O’Faolain, Julia. We Might See Sights!. Faber and Faber, 1968.

O’Faolain, Julia. Women in the Wall. Faber and Faber, 1975.