Liam O'Flaherty was an Irish novelist and short-story writer, and one of the foremost socialist writers in the first part of the 20th century, writing about the common people's experience and from their perspective.
Liam O'Flaherty served on the Western Front as a soldier in the British army's Irish Guards regiment from 1916 and was badly injured in 1917. After the war, he was a founding member of the Communist Party of Ireland. His brother Tom Maidhc O'Flaherty was also involved in radical politics and their father, Maidhc Ó Flaithearta, was before them. O'Flaherty wrote almost exclusively in English, except for a play, a notable collection of short stories and some poems in the Irish language. Wikipedia
"The Landing", from Spring Sowing (1924; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926) p. 70
Letter to the Irish Statesman, October 18, 1924
Joseph Conrad: An Appreciation (1930; New York: Haskell House, 1973) p. 11
Liam O'Flaherty book The Informer
The Informer (1925; London: New English Library, 1971) p. 139
