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Extraordinary Final Odyssey Ends For Ireland's Finest Woman WriterPosted at 7:20PM Sunday 11 May 2008 The middle-aged Irish woman weeping last month as the curtain went up at the Berlin Opera was clearly moved by the opening bars of Verdi's Don Carlos. What the strangers around her did not understand was that she was also saying a final goodbye to music - one of the great loves of her varied and turbulent life.Nuala O'Faolain had just weeks, perhaps days, to live and wanted to bid farewell, one by one, to some of her favourite pleasures. The 68-year old writer, who died of cancer in Dublin yesterday, was one of the leading figures in modern Irish culture.
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