The Sniper (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Liam O’Flaherty
- First Published: 1923
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: The early 1920's
- Setting: Dublin, Ireland
- Principal Characters: A sniper, Another sniper, A man in an armored car, An old woman
- Genres: Short fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: Brothers, Youth, Soldiers, Ireland or Irish people, Horror, Civil wars
- Locales: Dublin, Ireland
The Story
“The Sniper” relates an encounter in downtown Dublin, near the O’Connell Bridge, between a sniper for the Republicans and a sniper for the Free Staters. Guns roar in the distance as the Republican sniper lies on a rooftop. He is a young boy. “His face was that of a student—thin and ascetic, but his eyes had the cold gleam of a fanatic . . . the eyes of a man who is used to look at death.”
It is a June evening, and the sniper, who has had nothing to eat since morning, hungrily wolfs down a sandwich and takes a short drink from the flask of whiskey he...
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