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Liam O'Flaherty (Irish: Liam Ó Flaithearta; 28 August 1896 – 7 September 1984) was an Irish novelist and short story writer and a major figure in the Irish literary renaissance. He was a founding member of the Communist Party of Ireland. His brother Tom Maidhc O'Flaherty (also a writer) was also involved in radical politics and their father, Maidhc Ó Flaithearta, before them. A native Irish-speaker from the Gaeltacht, O'Flaherty wrote almost exclusively in English, except for a small number of short stories in the Irish language.
Liam O'Flaherty
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Born
28 August 1896
Inishmore, Ireland
Died
7 September 1984 (aged 88)
Dublin, Ireland
Occupation
Author
Nationality
Irish
Literary movement
Irish Renaissance
Spouse
Margaret Barrington
Children
Pegeen, Joyce
Relatives
Tom O'Flaherty, his brother
Breandán Ó hEithir, his nephew
John Ford, his cousin
Early years
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East beach of Inishmore, O'Flaherty's birthplace
O'Flaherty was born, a son of Maidhc Ó Flaithearta and Maggie Ganley, at Gort na gCapall, Inishmore. His family, descendants of the Ó Flaithbertaigh family of Connemara, were not well off. The Irish language was widely spoken in the area, and in the O'Flaherty household both English and Irish were used.[1] O'Flaherty was an uncle of Gaelic Athletic Association commentator and writer, Breandán Ó hEithir.[2]
At the age of twelve, he moved to County Tipperary to attend Rockwell College. Six years later, in 1914, he moved to Dublin to attend University College Dublin and the Dublin Diocesan[3] teacher training college Holy Cross College (Clonliffe College).[4] According to The Sunday Times, he also attended Belvedere College and Blackrock College.
He intended to enter the priesthood and enrolled in the Holy Ghost Fathers,[5] but in 1917 he joined the British Army as a member of the Irish Guards in 1917 under the name 'Bill Ganly'.[6] serving on the Western Front. He found trench life devastatingly monotonous [7] but was badly injured in September 1917 during the Battle of Langemarck, near Ypres in West Flanders. It is speculated that the shell shock suffered was responsible for the mental illness which became apparent in 1933.
After being discharged he went traveling. He joined the Industrial Workers of the World in Canada and while in New York joined the Communist Party USA.[5]
He returned from the front a socialist. Having become interested in Marxism as a schoolboy,[8] atheistic and communistic beliefs evolved in his 20s and he was a founder member of the Communist Party of Ireland.[9] In 1922, two days after the establishment of the Irish Free State, O'Flaherty, who declared himself as Chairman of the Council of the Unemployed and other unemployed Dublin workers seized the Rotunda Concert Hall (the building was later separated from the Rotunda Hospital and is now divided between the Ambassador Cinema and the Gate Theatre) in Dublin and held it for four days flying a red flag, in protest at "the apathy of the authorities". Free State troops forced their surrender.[10][11]