The Oxford Companion to English Literature | O'Flaherty, Liam
O'Flaherty, Liam
(
1896
–
1984
),
Irish
nationalist, novelist, and short story writer, who was born in the Aran Islands. His first novel, The Neighbour's Wife (
1923
), was published with the encouragement of
E.
Garnett
, and followed by several others, notably The Informer (
1925
), The Puritan (
1931
), and Famine (
1937
). But he is best known for his short stories, published in many periodicals and several volumes including Spring Sowing (
1924
), The Tent (
1926
), Two Lovely Beasts (
1948
), etc. Characteristic stories are those which deal unsentimentally with life, or more often death, from an animal's point of view, e.g. ‘The Cow's Death’ (
1923
), ‘The Wounded Cormorant’ (
1925
), and ‘The Seal’ (
1948
).
O'Flaherty
published three volumes of flamboyant and inventive memoirs of his restless life: Two Years (
1930
), I Went to Russia (...
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