Marian finucane interview with nuala ofaolain biography

Just months after learning she had cancerous tumors in her brain, liver, and lungs, the Irish journalist and writer Nuala O'Faolain passed away on May 9, 2008.

Less than a month before her untimely death, she transfixed Ireland with a candid, heartbreaking live interview on RTE with her close friend, the presenter Marian Finucane.

Nuala O'Faolain rang her friend Marian Finucane in March to arrange a lunch – but it was far from an ordinary meeting between the two friends.

Nuala O'Faolain rang her friend Marian Finucane in March to arrange a lunch – but it was far from an ordinary meeting between the two friends.

The interview in instantly became iconic and is widely considered one of the most extraordinary in the history of Irish broadcasting.

Marian talks to author Nuala O'Faolain shortly before her death in

In , Marian Finucane interviewed writer and close friend Nuala O'Faolain - just six weeks after Nuala was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Nuala O'Faolain's legendary interview with Marian Finucane posed a great question – where do our thoughts go when we die?

That interview became iconic and is widely considered one of the best and most extraordinary in the history of Irish broadcasting.

The interview was recorded in Galway, where O'Faolain was having radiation therapy.

After Finucane and her producer Anne Farrell discussed whether the interview should be aired on mainstream radio on a Saturday morning due to the heavy content, they agreed to go ahead with the completely unedited interview, but with an explicit warning at the beginning of the program.

O'Faolain, author of "Are You Somebody," "Almost There," "My Dream of You,"