O'flaherty, Liam
Related Category: English Literature, 20th cent. to the Present: Biographies
(lē´əm ōflă´hərtē), 1897–1984, Irish novelist, b. Aran Islands, Co. Galway. Many of his realistic novels have a compassionate interest in troubled people caught in the turbulence of his homeland, such as
The Informer (1925), successfully filmed in 1935;
The Black Soul (1924);
Mr. Gilhooley (1926); and
The Assassin (1928).
Famine (1937),
Land (1946), and
Insurrection (1951) are novels of 19th-century Ireland. He also wrote notable short stories, as well as autobiographical works,
Two Years (1930) and
Shame the Devil (1934).
See studies by J. Zneimer (1970) and J. H. O'Brien (1973).
