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'''Liam O'Flaherty''' (August 28, 1896 - September 7, 1984) was a important Irish novelist and short story writer and the major figure in the Irish Renaissance. Natural on the remote Gort na gCapall, Inishmore (one of the Aran Islands), county Galway, and enlightened at University College Dublin. He was the leading Irish novelist of the early 20th century. His works come characterized by realism & mighty drama.

Although the native speaker of Irish, Liam O'Flaherty wrote mostly inside English.

Works
Among his books come ''Thy Neighbor's Wife (1924), The Informer (1925; film, 1935), Mr. Gilhooley (1926), Short Stories (1937; revised 1956), Famine (1937), Land (1946), Two Lovely Beasts and Other Stories (1950), Insurrection (1951), and The Pedlar's Revenge and Other Stories (1976).

Additionally to The Sniper'', some notable short stories by O'Flaherty come Civil War, The Shilling, Going into Exile, and A Red Petticoat.

Towards the prevent of his life, he published a collection of short stories, Dúil, which ranks among a finest he wrote inside any language, besides when the finest ever written in Irish.

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