DR. Kathryn Faugh-ey, the Irish American psychologist who was murdered in New York last week, was the daughter of Irish immigrants and had visited Ireland several times over the course of her life, the Irish Voice has learned. Faughey, 56, was brutally hacked and stabbed to death in her Upper East Side office on Tuesday, February 12. David Tarloff, 39, a man with a long history of mental illness was later arrested and charged with the killing.According to Father Seamus Finn, a family friend of Faughey and her husband of 15 years Walter Adam who presided over her funeral last Saturday, told the Irish Voice, "Kathryn visited Ireland numerous times over the course of her life, some of those times with her husband where they visited both her family counties of Sligo and Armagh."Faughey's father Owen Faughey left Crossmaglen, Co. Armagh in 1916 and came to the U.S. to seek a better life for himself. It was at a dance hall in Manhattan a short few years later that he met the love of his life, Teresa Rush, who hailed from Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo. Faughey, who advertised her psychology business on various Irish websites and newspapers, including the Irish Voice, lost her father at a young age, leaving her mother to raise seven young kids in Sunnyside, Queens."Kathryn put herself through different schools by working and going to school in the evenings. She was a very determined woman - she wanted to do what she wanted to do," Finn said. Faughey, a licensed psychologist and graduate of Yeshiva University in the Bronx, was the first in her family to go to college.Finn, who comes from Kanturk in Co. Cork, said that Faughey's grandfather Martin Rush was a well-known musician of his time in Sligo. "Kathryn was very much in love with music herself. She had a great love for playing the guitar," said Finn. Faughey attended guitar camp with Adam in Pennsylvania on a number of occasions.The last time Finn had a conversation with Faughey was at the annual New York ball hosted at the Waldorf-Astoria by the Flax Trust, the largest community regeneration project in Ireland, in November."I've known Kathryn about 10 or so years, maybe even 12. I think we met through a mutual acquaintance," remembers Finn. "The last time we met was very memorable. I just really enjoyed meeting Kathryn. She was a wonderful lady." Talking about the current pain Faughey's Irish family, husband and friends are experiencing Finn said, "I think Kathryn herself would realize she was about helping people get on with their lives, and her profession was about listening to lots of stories of broken lives and people who were broken in a lot of ways either by anger or pain or suffering and sudden death."I think in a lot of ways she would be the one who would say to any of us that even in the pain you have to find the strength and the grace and energy to go on."Faughey's brother Kevin told reporters earlier last week that Kathryn had a wonderful up-bringing. "We were brought up in a loving home with a wonderful Irish father and mother who were focused on raising their children and giving them the proper values," he said. "Kathryn was always a person who was reading and studying and she always had goals in her life that she wanted to do something for humanity, in some way, shape or form to help," said Kevin, who along with Kathryn and their family were members of St. Theresa's Church where the seven children attended parish school. Speaking at Faughey's funeral, Finn told a weepy congregation, "We're filled with questions, emotions, feelings, impulses, thoughts, trying to make sense. Kathryn was about encouraging people - each one of us - to continue on, to find the freshness, to find the beauty, to find the joy even in pain."Faughey's best friend, Sister Patricia Daly, who wasn't available for comment at time of print, delivered the eulogy at her friend's funeral with Adam by her side. She described Kathryn as "the pure energy of God in our midst" and talked about her "incredible wisdom and grace to overcome difficulties she met." She urged the congregation made up of 350 close family and friends of the doctors to "to move beyond the circumstances of the last few days," because that is what Faughey would have wanted. Adam, a retired lawyer, told reporters before the funeral on Saturday that his wife had "a storybook beginning and a gruesome end." Faughey and Adam met in an East Side restaurant in 1990. "We started chatting. Her friend left. Kathy and I went to the Green Kitchen restaurant and I walked her home," Adam told reporters. That evening Adam, who was living with his sister at the time, went home and told her, "I just met the woman I am going to marry." On March 19, 1992 the pair tied the knot. Although they dreamed of having children one day, Adam stated that Faughey had six miscarriages and one stillborn child. On Saturday, February 16 the same day the red haired, pale skinned Irish woman was being laid to rest at St. Monica's Church near her Upper East Side home, police arrested and charged Tarloff with Faughey's murder. Tarloff, the balding middle-aged man seen in a videotape entering the building where Faughey worked, used a meat cleaver to murder Faughey, who was not his intended victim. Tarloff was a former patient of Faughey's colleague Dr. Kent Shinbach, who suffered serious wounds while he tried to come to the aid of Faughey after he heard screams coming from her room. Tarloff, who has an address in Queens, left two suitcases at the scene of the crime. One contained adult diapers and women's clothing, including blouses and slippers. The other case, a smaller one, had eight knives, a rope and some duct tape. According to police reports, Faughey's Upper East Side office was in disarray with furniture overturned, shades torn off the window and blood found on the walls and the floor."The condition of the room was that of a fierce struggle," said chief police spokesman Paul Browne.Tarloff, who has a known history of violent behavior, was charged with second-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder and assault after he admitted slashing the therapist 15 times. Tarloff told police he planned to rob Shinbach, 70, because the therapist had him committed in 1991. Tarloff, after attacking Shinbach while pinning him to the wall with a chair, stole $90 from him before making a bold escape through the basement door, according to police. Shinbach is currently recovering at home from his injuries.Faughey's body was to be cremated and her ashes will be spread along the River Seine in Paris, where she and Adam had intended to travel to in April. Faughey is survived by siblings Mary, Eileen, Michael, Owen and Bernadette and her husband Walter. Her mother passed away 10 years ago.