The Sniper | The Position of Liam O’Flaherty
In the following essay, Troy categorizes O’Flaherty’s works by theme and setting, calling “The Sniper” and other works “the most remarkable record” of Dublin’s revolutionary period of the early twentieth century.
Liam O’Flaherty, at the age of thirty-two, has written five novels, four volumes of short stories, a biography and a large number of sketches and short stories soon to be gathered together in another collection. His reputation, however, is commensurate neither with this record of sustained creative energy nor with the easily recognizable distinction of his work. Literary popularity is never a matter of significance in speaking about a serious artist; but the reasons behind the critical apathy in the present instance are more interesting than usual. To consider them is to discover...
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