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Liam O'Flaherty
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Liam O'Flaherty
‘I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men’s bones."
Liam O’Flaherty
Bibliography
Where did he write his first book and short story?
http://www.ranker.com/list/liam-o_flaherty-books-and-stories-and-written-works/reference?page=2
http://www.biography.com/people/liam-oflaherty-9427273
http://www.bloomsbury.com/author/liam-oflaherty
Liam was forced to flee and settled in London where he began writing short stories and novels. The richness of the Irish language had a major influence on his writing, which is notable for its realism and power of description.
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Books and Awards
What inspired him to be an author?
- Thy Neighbour’s Wife (1923), his successful first novel;
- The Black Soul (1924), the story of a tormented former soldier who seeks tranquillity on a remote western isle;
- The Informer (1925; adapted as an Oscar-winning film by John Ford, 1935), about a confused revolutionary who betrays his friend during the Irish “troubles”;
- Skerrett (1932), a critically acclaimed story of conflict between a parish priest and a teacher;
- Famine (1937), a re-creation of the effect of the Irish famine of the 1840s on the individuals of a small community;
- Short Stories (1937; rev. ed. 1956);
- Insurrection (1950), a novel dealing with the Easter Rising of 1916;
- The Pedlar’s Revenge and Other Stories (1976); as well as several other novels and collections of short stories. His autobiography,
- Shame the Devil, was published in 1934.
Liam was once a soldier and that's why he writes about wars and revolutionary activities in his own country, Ireland.
Liam O'Flaherty
Liam O'Flaherty was born on August 28, 1896 in Inishmore, Aran Islands, County Galway, Ireland. He was an Irish writer, who wrote short stories that are general fiction. He wrote approximately 150 short stories and books. Liam O'Flaherty was known for being a novelist and short story writer and a leading writer of the Irish literary renaissance. Liam died at the age of 88 on September 7, 1983.