The removal of author and former Irish Timescolumnist Nuala O'Faolain is to be held tonight.
Ms O'Faolain died at the Blackrock Hospice on Friday night. She was 68.
In April, the author revealed in a radio interview with Marian Finucane that she had been diagnosed with metastatic cancer.
In the interview she described how, although diagnosed only six weeks previously, lung cancer had spread to her brain and liver.
Ms O'Faolain also admitted that she had turned down the option of chemotherapy.
In the interview on the
Marian Finucane Show, she said: "I was supposed to start chemotherapy. I was supposed to start 18 weeks of it, six sessions of it. After three sessions they would know if it was working.
"But ... it reduced me to such feelings of impotence and wretchedness and sourness with life... and fear, that I decided against it."
Educated at University College Dublin, University of Hull and Oxford University, Ms O'Faolain worked as a television producer and journalist before writing the international bestseller,
Are You Somebody?, in 1996.
She went on to write a novel My Dream of You, a second volume of memoirs called Almost Thereand the biography The Story of Chicago May.
The removal will take place tonight to the Church of the Visitation, Fairview arriving at 5.30pm.
Ms O'Faolain's funeral will be held tomorrow after midday mass to Glasnevin Crematorium.