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"The Sniper" is set in the city of Dublin during the Irish Civil War. This places the story somewhere in 1922 or 1923. ... Liam O'Flaherty was an Irish literary and political figure who lived from 1896 to 1984. He was born in a remote village in the Aran Islands of Ireland to a family that was not well off.
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Liam O’Flaherty (oh-FLAHRT-ee), a writer of extraordinary storytelling ability and powers of observation, was born on August 28, 1896, in Gort na gCapell in the Aran Islands of Ireland, a stormy, desolate region that was to influence his writing both in style and in subject. An outstanding student, O’Flaherty was educated at the Junior Seminary at Rockwell, Blackrock College, and Holy Cross College, a diocesan seminary in Dublin. Whether the priesthood was his intention is not known; he later wrote that he gave up the idea of being a priest while at Rockwell. He won a scholarship to University College, Dublin, and began studying medicine.
In 1915 O’Flaherty left University College to join the British army. He served with the Irish Guards in Belgium and France, suffered shell shock at Langemarck in September of 1917, and was consequently invalided from the army in 1918. He returned to Ireland briefly, then roamed the world for the next two years. He worked as a seaman on ships in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and traveled and worked in Canada and the United States. His brother Robert O’Flaherty, living in Boston and himself a writer, encouraged Liam to write about his experiences, and O’Flaherty attempted several short stories but, dissatisfied with his results, burned many of them.
In 1920 he returned to Ireland. O’Flaherty had always been politically active; as a schoolboy at Rockwell, he had organized a corps of Republican Volunteers, and at University College, he had joined the college Irish Volunteers corps. Back in Ireland again after war and wandering, he became active in communist and socialist causes. He also broke with the Catholic Church. On January 18, 1922, during the Irish Civil War, O’Flaherty led a group of unemployed in occupying the Rotunda in Dublin and raising over it the Communist Party flag. His political activities eventually forced him to flee Ireland for London, where he began to write seriously. His early efforts, a 150,000-word novel and several short stories, did not meet with much success.
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