Tuesday the 13th
Liam O'Flaherty Books
Thy Neighbour's Wife (1924), The Informer (1925), Mr. Gilhooley (1926), Short Stories (1937), Famine (1937), Land (1946), Two Lovely Beasts and Other Stories (1950), Insurrection (1951), The Pedlar's Revenge and Other Stories (1976).
Liam O'Flaherty Links
Liam O'Flaherty - Unofficial Homepage
Site http://www.iol.ie/~scash/biog.htm
LIAM O FLAHERTY was a child of the nineteenth century, and a man of the twentieth. Born in rural poverty, he died in urban comfort. Passionate in his love of nature, he abhorred everything brutish in man. An exquisite writer of short stories about man and beast on Ireland's western seaboard, ironically he is best known for The Informer, his novel of squalid Communist intrigue in the back streets of Dublin (thanks largely to the famous film version by his cousin John Ford). Yet Famine, calmly dispassionate on the horrors of the Great Hunger, is regarded by all his readers as his greatest work. He was a man with a divided nature; even the Gaelic language of his childhood village was not the language his father wanted in the home. Solitary, he tried for many years to gain a foothold in crowded Hollywood. An individualist to the core, spontaneous and restless, by inclination a wanderer, he espoused the fervent Communism so typical of those early twentieth-century writers who were filled with generosity and purity of heart; he was still reading Sartre and Le Drapeau Rouge in the last years of his life. Yet it was a cause that failed him, as it did so many other admirers of Lenin and Trotsky. In touch to his nerve ends with the tides and eddies of creation, he loathed with great bitterness all organised religion, yet spent years studying for the priesthood. In the end he died with the blessing of a priest, reconciled with God if not with the institution he had so long rejected.
Liam O'Flaherty - USNA
Site http://www.usna.edu/EnglishDept/ilv/oflaherty.htm
Liam O'Flaherty is one of the most significant and important modern Anglo-Irish authors. His novels have not been met with much critical analysis over the last forty years because he stopped publishing work in 1956. Both his novels and his short stories define Anglo-Irish literature in that his themes stem from his experiences growing up in a poverty-stricken society on the island of Aran; his naturalistic, mystical, romantic, and realistic styles were also defined by his experiences in his native Ireland.
Liam O'Flaherty - Irish Writers Online
Site http://www.irishwriters-online.com/liamoflaherty.html
Liam O’Flaherty was born at Gort na gCapall, Inishmór, the largest of the Aran Islands, in 1896. He wrote in English and Irish. His main works include the novels Thy Neighbour’s Wife (London, Jonathan Cape, 1923); The Black Soul (Jonathan Cape, 1924); The Informer (Jonathan Cape, 1925), which was made into a film of the same name by John Ford; The Assassin (Jonathan Cape, 1928); Skerret (1932); Shame the Devil (1934); and Famine (1937).
Liam O'Flaherty - Britannica
Site http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9056816
Irish novelist and short-story writer whose works combine brutal naturalism, psychological analysis, poetry, and biting satire with an abiding respect for the courage and persistence of the Irish people. He was considered to be a leading figure of the Irish Renaissance.
Liam O'Flaherty - siu
Site http://www.siu.edu/~ireland/lo.htm
The holdings concerning Liam O'Flaherty contain manuscripts of two novels as well as one letter. There is a signed manuscript, in O'Flaherty's hand (and with corrections), of the first seven chapters of Part One of The House of Gold. In addition, there are seven manuscript fragments of chapter one of The House of Gold, along with a graph of the finished work by O'Flaherty. The only letter, dated 13 January 1926, is from O'Flaherty to Arthur Roberts, and concerns a missing section of the manuscript of The Informer. A very strong book collection of O'Flaherty's works supplements these holdings.
Liam O'Flaherty - Booksellerworld
Site http://www.booksellerworld.com/liam-oflaherty.htm
Liam O' Flaherty, born 1896, is one of Ireland's most respected novelists. Today he remains less well known than some of his contemporaries but his standing remains undiminished amongst those still familiar with his work. All of the books listed in this checklist are collectable. Unlike the like of Joyce et al his first editions, whilst not cheap, are not beyond many collectors with a reasonable budget. These strike us as good value and offer a chance to put together a collection of 1sts together, many with their dust jackets something which would be impossible for many other authors of this quality.
Liam O'Flaherty - Kennys Irish Bookstore
Site http://www.kennysirishbookshop.ie/categories/irishwriters/oflahertyliam.shtml
Liam O'Flaherty was born at Gort na gCapall, Inishmór, the largest of the Aran Islands, in 1896. He wrote in English and Irish. His main works include the novels Thy Neighbour's Wife (London, Jonathan Cape, 1923); The Black Soul (Jonathan Cape, 1924); The Informer (Jonathan Cape, 1925), which was made into a film of the same name by John Ford; The Assassin (Jonathan Cape, 1928); Skerret (1932); Shame the Devil (1934); and Famine (1937).
"We are one of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence."
W. B. Yeats, speech in the Irish Senate, June 11, 1925