1896-1984 [Liam Ó Flaithearta, Ó Fleathartha]; b. 28 Aug., Gort na gCapall,
nr. Kilmurphy, [SW] Inishmore, Aran; of a family prominent in Land League,
his father (a man ‘immune to pain or joy’) was a Fenian land-leaguer,
his mother, Margaret Ganly was a lively and humours story-teller [seanchaí]
with a marked reverence for nature; ed. at Oakquarter Boys’ National
School to 1909, under tutelage of David O’Callaghan, a second-language
Irish revivalist and proto-type of the title-character of Skerrett;
school managed by a Fr. Farragher, PP, the model of Moclair in the same
novel; by his own account, beaten at school for writing a story in which
a farmer murders his wife with a spade; Roger Casement, on visiting the
school, proposed sending him to Summerhill College, Sligo while presenting
his br. Tom with a copy of Fr. Ó Laoghaire’s Seadna;
recruited by Holy Ghost Fathers for missionary priesthood and hence went
to Rockwell College, Co. Tipperary on scholarship; took Gold Medal for
Irish essay on emigration, the prize being supplied by an American supporter;
gifted classical student; refused to take the soutane as expected after
four years (later professing himself agnostic); transferred to Blackrock
College, in 1913; established there a unit of the Irish Volunteers, 1913;
proceeded to UCD on Classics scholarship, 1914; commenced attending Clonliffe
Diocesan Seminary also; en passant reference to Marxism in UCD lecture
of Fr. Finlay aroused his interest; enlisted in Irish Guards [British
Army] under name of ‘Bill Ganly’, 1914; trained at Catterham
barracks; wounded in head during bombardment at Langemarck, Sept. 1917,
and discharged with melancholia acuta after terms in hospitals
incl. George V in Dublin (‘You have to go through life with that
shell bursting in your head’); returned home on disability pension;
regarded as a renegade in Aran; supported IRA in War of Independence [Anglo-Irish
War, 1919-21]; passed a month in London and greeted Armistice celebrations
with ambivalence; set out for S. America as trimmer in stokehold of tramper
bound for Rio de Janiero, where he left ship; kept company with hungry
beachcomers on water-front; taught Greek in Collegio Anglo-Brazileiro;
heard news of Irish independence while in Rio after a sojourn inland;
signed up for Mediterranean trip in Liverpool rather than return to a
pacific Ireland; involved in gun-running transaction at Smyrna; proceeded
via Gibraltar on the same ship to Montreal, Canada; worked as agricultural
labourer; travelled to Toronto and worked in N. Ontario lumber industry;
lost job through involvement with IWW (Wobblies); moved to Port Arthur;
proceeded to USA and visited elder br. and sis., then living in Boston; worked
as Western Union messenger; assistant printer; pastry-maker and construction
worker; moved to New York with his brother Tom, and worked in Du Pont
Explosives, NY; encountered trans. of Maupassant; unsuccessfully attempted
writing; returned to Ireland and visits Aran, 1921; shows symptoms of
neuresthenia; fnd.-mbr. Irish Communist Party, Nov. 1921; as self-styled
Chairman of Council of Unemployed, he led the seizure of the Rotunda Rooms,
Dublin, 18 Jan. 1922; proclaimed an Irish Soviet Workers’ Republic;
attacked by Provisional Govt., and withdrew to avoid bloodshed, 22 Jan.,
fleeing to Cork with two companions; joined Republicans in Civil War and
supported Rory O’Connor at the Four Courts, escaping before the capitulation;
moved to London, staying with a Mrs. Casey, an earlier friend; experienced
ecstatic memory of Aran in a London street and turned to writing (‘it
seemed as if the dam had burst somewhere in my soul’); commenced writing
seriously in London, Sept. 1922; encouraged in literary ambitions by Mrs
Casey’s dg.; submitted ‘trashy’ novel set in London to
Allen & Unwin, and received scathing response incl. sarcastic verses
on its ineptitude; began to write about Aran; contrib. “The Sniper”
to British Socialist weekly The New Leader (Jan. 12 1923), and
advised by Mrs. Hamilton, its editor, to contact Edward Garnett, reader
for Jonathan Cape whom O’Flaherty called his ‘literary godfather’;
his first printed novel Thy Neighbour’s Wife (1923), a passionate
story of Fr. Hugh McMahon, an island priest in love, was accepted by Garnett,
who began to supply him with books incl. Turgenev’s Fathers and
Sons, Borrow’s Romany Rye and works of Conrad, as well
as stories by Maupassant and Chekhov; proposed enthusiastically to Miss
Casey and soon withdrew his proposal; worked on The Black Soul,
dealing with Red John, a semi-human figure, while living in Oxfordshire
farmhouse shared with H.E. Bates (another protegé of Garnett);
returned to Dublin and rented cottage in Co. Wicklow, nr. Hell Fire Club,
early 1924; returned to Dublin and attended AE’s ‘at homes’;
issued Spring Sowing (1924), highly-acclaimed stories incl. “The
Sniper” in which brother kills brother during civil war fighting
in Dublin; issued The Black Soul (1924), which was praised by AE
but damned by the London critics, and which he came to regard as damaged
by his reading of Conrad; retreated to Aran and left again after three days; formed Radical Club with
Francis Stuart, Cecial Salkeld, Austin Clarke, F. R. Higgins, Brinsley
MacNamara and Padraig Ó Conaire; subscribed to clarion-call editorial
of To-morrow (1924); contrib. letter to Irish Statesman defending
‘wild tumult’ of contemporary Ireland as creative (18 Oct. 1924),
and answered by AE in same issue; issued The Informer (1925), a
novel set in the aftermath of the Civil War and concerning the brutish
Gypo Nolan who sells his former comrade and shifts the blame to another
man before being tracked down; composed in Expressionist style with German
film option in mind; sold 200,000 copies and took won James Tait Memorial
Prize; wrote Dorchadas, play in Irish [as Ó Flaithearta],
staged in Dublin in 1926 by a group called ‘Comhar’ and later
revived by Thaidhdhearc [Tabhaidhreac] na Gaillimhe in 1929; issued Mr
Gilhooley (1926), which inspired some nudes by Harry Clarke; eloped
with and m. Margaret Barrington, with whom
he had a dg. Pegeen; lived at Lackandaragh, Glencrea, Co. Wicklow, legally separated in Sept.
1932); protested with others at the opening of Sean O’Casey’s
The Plough and the Stars, 8 Feb., 1926 [‘the protest of Mr.
Yeats, against the protest of the audience, was an insult to the people
of this country’, 20 Feb. 1926]; issued The Wilderness, an
allegorical novel about ex-revolutionary Henry Lawless who has repudiated
his own Anglo-Irish class and takes up residence in the Fairy Glen [viz.,
Glencrea], only to be boycotted by the parish priest, leading to a death
in the manner of an Irish Messiah; published in the Humanist (Jan.
7 June 1927); movements and activities during 1927-32 uncertain [Sheeran,
op. cit., 1976, p.92]; won contract from Jonathan Cape for life of Tim
Healy (1927), on the grounds that author and subject had made themselves
the ‘most unpopular in Ireland’; contrib. long letter to Irish
Statesman (17 Dec., 1927), responding to charges made by Padraic Colum
of neglecting the Irish language; issued The Assassin (1928), in
which Michael McDara, a returned Irish-American, with another (Daniel
McFetterich, aka ‘Gutty Fetch’), play a role like that of the
killers of Kevin O’Higgins [here HIM]; issued The Return of the
Brute (1929), a violent account of trench warfare centred on Bill
Gunn and his mates; fnd.-mbr. MIAL, on Yeats’s invitation, 1929;
left Edward Garnett for A. D. Peters, 1929; issued Tourist’s Guide
to Ireland (1929), which divides the Irish people into priests, peasants,
publicans, and politicians; travels to Russia by ship, April 1930, remaining
several months; issued Two Years (1930), autobiography, and I
Went to Russia (1931); issued The Ecstasy of Angus (1931);
visited Stonehenge with James Joyce, [1931]; spends time on island in
Brittany, re-establishing contact with nature; reports to Edward Garnett
having ‘deliberately undergone a rather stupid cycle of experience’
in recent years, and professed to have ‘arrive[d] at a clearer consciousness
of what [he] want[s] to do’ (Feb. 1932); issued The Puritan
(1932), in which the eponymous Ferriter, a journalist, murders a prostitute
Theresa Burke as part of a crusade, and is tracked by Chief Supt. Lavan;
and The Martyr (1933), centred on the sacrificial patriotism of
Comm. Brian Crosbie and dealing with the Civil War events at a fictional
Sallytown in Co. Kerry, Sept. 1922 that culminate with his crucifixion
by the sinister Major Tyson; written in England, July-October 1932, and
completed on Aran; issued Shame the Devil (1934), autobiography;
moved to Holywood to work on script for The Informer, 1934, filmed
by John Ford, 1935 (a remake of the uncommercial version by Arthur Robinson);
though winnnig 4 Oscars it made little money for O’Flaherty due to
copyright disputes; meets Kitty Tailer (‘Kitty Pie’) at Santa
Barbara; issued Hollywood Cemetery (1935), satirising life in California;
issued Skerrett (1935), a novel set on ‘Nara’ [viz.,
Aran] and dealing with the conflict between David Skerrett, a head-strong
teacher, and Fr. Moclair, a dictatorial parish priest; issued Famine
(1937), ded. to John Ford, and dealing with the life of the Kilmartin
family during 1845-49; immediately recognised as a superior Irish historical
novel; supported socialist wing of IRA and the Spanish Republicans; remained
in America - chiefly California - throughout the World War II, mixing
with writers in Arizona, Florida, West Indies, and S. America; gave strenuously
anti-colonial lecture entitled ‘Hands Off Ireland’, Town Hall,
NY, 1941; returned to Ireland, 1945; issued Land (1946), centred
on Fenian captain Michael Dwyer and unfrocked priest Francis Kelly, pitted
against Inspector Fenton and Fr. Costigan during the Land War in Co. Mayo,
1879-1882, and with a renegade Anglo-Irishman in Raoul St George; issued
Insurrection (1950), a treatment of the 1916 Rising, which draws
in the central character Bartley Madden and set him in the company of
Capt. Kinsella and George Stapleton, respectively ascetic and the poet
types engaged in that adventure; ed., Dúil [Desire]
(1953), a collection of Irish stories from Gaelic League magazines; started
working on a novel in Irish under the title Coirp agus Anam [Body
and Soul], destined to remain unfinished and supposed to be about
gambling; lived with Kitty in flat nr. Baggot St., becoming increasingly
reclusive though continuing with his ‘interminable novel’, acc.
Kitty, who managed his affairs; refused to write preface for Folio edn.
of The Informer; Hon D.Litt. NUI, 1974; d. 7 Sept; portrait in
pastel by Harry Kernoff [appeared in NGI Yeats Centenary; lent by artist];
interest revived by Seamus Cashman of Wolfhound Press who reissued The
Wilderness (1987), as well as children’s stories (Test of
Time and All Things Come of Age), and went on to reprinted
all of his novels; the 100th anniversary of his birth was celebrated on
Inis Mór in August, 1996; many of his papers held in the Ransom
Humanities Research Center, University of Texas (Austin); others preserved by Kitty Tailer;
Letters edited by A. A. Kelly (1996); The Informer was dramatised
by Tom Murphy. PI IF NCBE DIW DIB DIH KUN OCEL ANJ DIL FDA OCIL
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Novels, Thy Neighbour’s Wife (London: Jonathan Cape 1923; NY: Boni & Liveright 1924); The Black Soul [Traveller’s Library] (London: Jonathan Cape 1924; NY: Boni & Liveright 1925; Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1996), dedicated to Edward Garnett; The Informer (London: Jonathan Cape; NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1925), Do., rep edn. [New English Library] (London: Dent/Four Square 1958); Do., with a preface by Denis Donoghue (NT: Harcourt 1980); and Do. [rep edn.] (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1999), 267pp.; Mr Gilhooley (London: Jonathan Cape 1926; NY: Harcourt, Brace 1927; Dublin: Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1991), 288pp. [ded. ‘To Pegeen’]; The Assassin (London: Jonathan Cape; NY: Harcourt, Brace 1928), Do., other edns., 1935, 1940, 1959, 1969, 1983, 1988, and pb. rep. (Dublin: Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1993); The House of Gold (London: Jonathan Cape 1929; NY: Harcourt, Brace 1930); The Return of the Brute (London: Mandrake 1929; NY: Harcourt, Brace 1930); The Ecstasy of Angus [priv.] (London: Joiner & Steel 1931), Do., (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1978), rep. with afterword by A[ngeline] A. Kelly; The Puritan (London: Jonathan Cape 1932; NY: Harcourt, Brace 1932); Hollywood Cemetery (London: Victor Gollancz 1935); Famine (London: Victor Gollancz; NY: Random House 1937; rep. London: Readers Union 1938; rep. Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1980; 2004), 432pp., and Do. [rep. edn.] (Boston: David R. Godine 1982); Insurrection (London: Gollancz 1950; Boston: Little, Brown 1951; London: Four Square Book 1966; rep. Wolfhound Press 1993), and Do. [French trans. as] Insurrection [Livre de poche 2012] (Paris: Calman Lévy 1953); The Martyr (NY: Macmillan; London: Victor Gollancz 1933); Skerrett (London: Victor Gollancz 1935), 287pp., and Do. [rep. edn.] (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1978) [var. 1977]; also French trans. as Skerrett (Paris: Stock 1948); Land (London: Victor Gollancz; NY: Random House 1946) [Gollancz edn. 234pp.]; Do., rep. (London: Four Square Bk 1969), 320pp.; also ‘The Wilderness’ [novella first serialised in 6 pts., The Humanist, 1927], first printed in book-form as The Wilderness (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1978; rep. 1996), 222pp.
Short stories, Spring Sowing (1924); Civil War (London: E. Archer 1925); The Terrorist (London: E. Archer 1926); The Child of God (London: E. Archer 1926); The Tent (London: Jonathan Cape 1926); The Fairy Goose and Two Other Stories (London: Crosby Gaige 1927); Red Barbara and Other Stories (London: Crosby Gaige 1928) [‘The Mountain Tavern’; ‘Prey’; ‘The Oar’]; The Mountain Tavern and Other Stories (London: Jonathan Cape 1929), and Do. [another edn.] (Tauchnitz 1929); Two Lovely Beasts and Other Stories (London: Victor Gollancz 1948; NY: Devin-Adair 1950); Dúil [Desire] (Dublin: Sairseál & Dill 1953); The Stories of Liam O’Flaherty (NY: Devin-Adair 1956); The Wounded Cormorant and Other Stories, pref. by Vivian Mercier (NY 1973); The Pedlar’s Revenge and Other Stories (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1976) [var. 1975]; Short Stories of Liam O’Flaherty (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1989), 222pp. Drama, ‘Dorchadas/Darkness’, in Beltaine (Márta 1926), and Do. [trans. as] Darkness [3 act tragedy] (London: E. Archer 1926).
Articles (Selected), ‘National Energy’, Irish Statesman, [3] (1924), p.171; ‘Mr Tasker’s Gods’, Irish Statesman 3 (1925), p.828; ‘A View of Irish Culture’, Irish Statesman, 4 ((20 June 1925), pp.460-61; ‘The Plough and the Stars’, irish Statesman, 5 (1926), p.739; ‘Literary Criticism in Ireland’, Irish Statesman, 6 (4 Sept. 1926), p.711; ‘Fascism or Communism?’, Irish Statesman (8 May 1926), pp.231-32; ‘Art Criticism’, Irish Statesman, 9 (1927), p.83; ‘Red Ship’, New Republic (23 Sept. 1931), pp.147-50; ‘The Kingdom of Kerry’, Fortnightly Review, CXXXXVIII (Aug. 1932), pp.212-18; ‘The Irish Censorship’, American Spectator (Nov. 1932), p.1; ‘Autobiographical Note’, in Ten Contemporaries [2nd Ser.] (London: J. Gawsworth 1933).
Writings in Irish (Selected), ‘Fód’, in Dublin Magazine (Bealtaine 1924); ‘Smaointhe i gCéin’, in Dublin Magazine 2 (Meán Fómhair [Dec.] 1924); ‘An Fiach’, in Fáinne an Lae (27 Meatheamh 1925); ‘Bás na Bó’, in Fáinne an Lae (18 Iúil 1925); ‘Daoine Bochta’, in Fáinne an Lae (19 Lúnasa 1925); ‘An tAonach’, in Fáinne an Lae (5 Méan Fómhair, 1925); ‘Na Blatha Craige’, in Seán Ó Tuama, ed., Nuabhearsaíocht (Dublin 1951). [most of the foregoing cited in Brian Ó Conchubhair, ‘Liam Ó Flaithearta agus an Chinsearcht I nGaeilge’, paper presented at IASIL Conference, Limerick 1998.]
Autobiography, Two Years (London: Jonathan Cape; NY: Harcourt, Brace 1930; London: Jonathan Cape 1933]; I Went to Russia (London: Jonathan Cape; NY: Harcourt, Brace 1931); The Wild Swan and Other Stories, foreword by Rhys Davies (London: Joiner & Steel 1932), frontis. by P.V. Moon; Shame the Devil (London: Grayson & Grayson 1934; [2nd imp.]1939).
Miscellaneous, Life of Tim Healy (London: Jonathan Cape 1927); A Tourist’s Guide to Ireland (London: Mandrake 1929); Joseph Conrad: An Appreciation (London: E. Lahr 1930); Introduction to Alfred Lowe, Six Cartoons (London 1930) [Barrie, Bennett, Chestertonn, Kipling, Shaw & Wells]; Foreword to Rhys Davies, The Stars, the World and the Women (London 1930); A Cure for Unemployment [Blue Moon Booklet No. 8] (London: E. Lahr 1931); ‘The Irish Censorship' [rep.; orig. in The American Spectator, 1 (Nov. 1932)], in Julia Carlson, intro. & ed., Banned in Ireland: Censorship & the Irish Writer (Georgia UP; London: Routledge 1990). Query,‘The Agony of the World’, in Adelphi Magazine (1 Meán Fómhair 1925).
Correspondence, A. A. Kelly, ed., Letters of Liam O’Flaherty (Dublin: Wolfhound 1996), 458pp. Also Liam O’Flaherty, ‘Writing in Gaelic’, in The Irish Stateman, 17 Dec 1927, p.348. QRY, Autobiographical Note (London: Gawsworth 1933).
Bibliographical details
The Short Stories of Liam O’Flaherty (London: Jonathan Cape 1937), Containing a selection of fifty-eight stories from the volumes [below]: Spring Sowing, first published, 1924; first issued in Travellers’ Library, 1927; reprinted 1929, 1931, 1935; The Tent, first published, 1926; The Mountain Tavern, first published 1929, reprinted 1929. Jonathan Cape Ltd. 30 Bedford Square, London, and 91 Wellington Street West, Toronto, printed in Great Britain in the City of Oxford at the Alden Press, paper made by John Dickinson & Co. Ltd., bound by a. W. Bain & Co. Ltd. CONTENTS: Spring Sowing [11]; The Cow’s Death [19]; The Wave [23]; The Tramp [27]; The Rockfish [42]; The Landing [46]; The Blackbird [55]; His First Flight [59]; A Shilling [63]; Three Lambs [67]; The Wren’s Nest [73]; The Black Mare [78]; Sport: The Kill [85]; The Sniper [89]; Two Dogs [94]; The Hook [98]; The Wild Sow [102]; A Pot of Gold [107]; The Fight [116]; Wolf Lanigan’s Death [122]; The Black Bullock [132]; Going Into Exile [137]; The Tent [151]; Milking Time [162]; The Conger Eel [167]; Civil War [172]; The Foolish Butterfly [181]; The Wild Goat’s Kid [185]; The Old Hunter [194]; Offerings [206]; The Jealous Hens [210]; Stoneybatter [[214]; The Wounded Cormorant [226]; Poor People [230]; The Lost Thrush [235]; A Red Petticoat [240]; Trapped [251]; Mother and Son [261]; The Stolen Ass [265]; Charity [270]; The Wing Three-Quarter [275]; The Reaping Race [284]; Birth [293]; The Oar [299]; The Blackbird’s Mate [306]; The Mountain Tavern [313]; Prey [324]; The Fairy Goose [329]; The Alien Skull [338]; The Sinner [347]; The Black Rabbit [362]; The Letter [369]; The Little White Dog [376]; The Stream [381]; The Strange Disease [387]; The Stone [395]; The Child of God [402]; Red Barbara [426-36; END].
The Short Stories of Liam O’Flaherty, author of The Informer [first pub. Jonathan Cape 1937] (London: Digit Books [Brown, Watson] n.d.), 157pp. No Table of Contents; contains Spring Sowing; The Cow’s Death; The Wave; The Tramp; The Rockfish; The Landing; The Blackbird; His First Flight; A Shilling; Three Lambs; The Wren’s Nest; The Black Mare; Sport: The Kill; The Sniper; Two Dogs; The Hook; The Wild Sow; A Pot of Gold; The Fight; Wolf Lanigan’s Death; The Black Bullock; Going Into Exile; The Tent.
Irish Portraits: 14 Short Stories by Liam O’Flaherty (London: Sphere Books 1970), 140pp. CONTENTS, Introduction [9]; The Painted Woman‡ [13]; Your Honour†[41]; The Fall of Joseph Timmins‡ [47]; The Terrorist† [59]; The Bladder* [65] Mackerel for Sale‡ [69]; The Inquisition† [81]; The Outcast† [89]; Selling Pigs* [95]; The Fireman’s Death† [103]; The Doctor’s Visit* [107]; The Struggle* [117]; At the Forge† [121] Blackmail† [125]; Colic* [135]. Taken from collections *Spring Sowing, †The Tent, and ‡ The Mountain Tavern.
Journal publications
Alphabetical listing: “Accident”, Fortnightly Review, CXLIII, Feb. 1935,155-67. “Alien Skull, The”, Short Stories [henceforth SS] 3, SS4, SS12. “All things come of Age”, Esquire, III, Jan. 1935, 43, 184; SS13. “Arrest”, Weekly Westminster, 5 Sept. 1925,476; SS13. “At the Forge”, The New Leader,14 Aug. 1925; SS2, SS9. “Backwoodsman”s daughter”, Mademoiselle, XXII, .April 1946, 150, 230-1, 241, 243 (adapted from chapter 19 of Two Years). “Bath, The”, Story, XVI, May - June, 1940, 9-19; SS5. “Beauty” SS1. “Beggars The”, The Bell, XIII, March 1947, 5-23; SS5, SS6. “Benedicamus Domino”, SS1 “Birth”, The Humanist, Oct. 1926, 361-2. The Fairy Goose and Two Other Stories, London and New York: Crosby Gaige ltd. edn. 1927; SS3, SS4, SS6, SS7, SS12. “Black Bullock, The”, SS1, SS4, SS8. “Black Cat, The, The Humanist, July 1926, 237-9. “Blackbird, The”, The Nation (London), XXXV, 2 Aug. 1924,563-4; SS1, SS4, SS6, SS8. “Blackbird”s Mate, The”, SS3, SS4. “Blackmail”, SS2, SS9. “Black Mare, The”, New Statesman, XX11,3 Nov. 1923, 110-11; Great British Short Stories, ed. E. and E Huberman, New York: Bantam, 1968; SS1, SS4, SS6, SS7 SS8. “Black Rabbit, The”, SS3, SS4, SS12. “Bladder, The”, The Nation (London), XXXI, 22 March 1924, 887; SS1, SS9. “Blow, The”, The Bell, XIX, May 1954, 9-22; Esquire, XLII, July 1954, 32-3, 110-13; Great Irish Short Stories, ed. Vivian Mercier, New York: Dell, 1964, SS6. “Bohunk”, SS13. “Cake, The”, The Irish Statesman, V, 19 Dec. 1925, 455-7. “Caress, The”, at end of Shame the Devil, pp.252-83; SS13. “Challenge, The”, SS5. “Charity”, Weekly Westminster, 4 July 1925, 256, SS2, SS4. “Child of God, The”, ltd. edn., London: Archer, 1926; The New Coterie, V Spring 1927, 43-60; SS3, SS4, SS6. “Christmas Eve”, Weekly Westminster, III, 20 Dec. 1924, 246. “Civil War”, ltd. edn., London: Archer, 1925; The New Coterie, 1 Nov. 1925 60-6;1rish Short Stories, ed. G. A. Birmingham, London, 1932; SS2, SS4. “Colic”, SS1, SS9. “Conger Eel, The”, The Nation (London), XXXVI, 1 Nov. 1924, 183-4; The Dial LXXVIII, Jan. 1925, 5-7; SS2, SS4, SS6, SS7, SS8. “Cow”s Death, The”, New Statesman, 30 June 1923, 364; SS1, SS4, SS6, SS7, SS8. “Crow Fight, A”, The Dublin Magazine, II, Sept. 1924, 102-6; SS13. “Cutting of Tom Bottle, The”, Charles Wain: A Miscellany of Short Stories, London: Mallinson, 1933, pp.137-60. “Desire”, Evening News (London), 2 Nov. 1948, 2; The Bell, XIX, July 1954, 48-50 SS6, SS7. “Ditch, The”, SS3. “Doctor”s Visit, The”, SS1, SS9. “Dublin Eviction, A”, Weekly Westminster, III, 13 Dec. 1924, 216. “Enchanted Water, The”, Yale Review, XLII, Sept. 1952, 46-53; SS13. “Eviction, The”, Maranist, XLII, April 1951, 11; SS5. “Fairy Goose, The”, The Humanist, Aug. 1926, 275-7. Ltd. edn., London: Faber and Gwyer, 1927; New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928; This Week in Ireland, 5 Dec. 1969, 29-33; SS3, SS4, SS6, SS7, SS12. “Fall of Joseph Timmins, The”, SS3, SS9. “Fanatic, The”, The Bell, XVIII, Summer 1953, 16-26; Esquire, XL, Dec. 1953, 90 194, 196, 198; Pick of Today”s, 5, ed. John Pudney, London, 1954; SS13. “Fight, The”, Manchester Guardian, 28 Aug. 1923; SS1, SS4, SS6, SS7, SS8. “Fireman”s Death, The”, Weekly Westminster, 24 Oct. 1925; SS2, SS9. “Fishing”, The Irish Statesman, III, 6 Dec. 1924, 392-4; SS13. “Flood, The”, The Dublin Magazine, II, Jan. 1925, 408-10; Living Age, CCCXXV, 20 June 1925, 642-3. “Flute Player, The”, Esquire, XXVII, March 1947, 41, 127-9, SS5. “Foolish Butterfly, The”, The Adelphi, II, Nov. 1924, 474-7; The Dial, LXXVIII, May 1925, 402-4; SS2, SS4, SS12. “Fresh Mackerel”, Weekly Westminster, III, 6 Dec. 1924, 176. “Galway Bay”, London Mercury, XXXIX, Jan. 1939, 297-307; SS5, SS6. “Going into Exile”, The Dublin Magazine, I, April 1924, 789-96; The Irish Press, XVI, 22 April 1946, 10; 23 April 1946, 7; 1000 Years of Irish Prose, ed. Vivian Mercier & Greene, New York, 1952; (under the title of “The Exiles”, This Week in Ireland 12 Dec. 1969, 29-35); SS1, SS4, SS6, SS7, SS8. “Good Samaritan, The”, The New Leader, 27 Aug. 1926, 8. “Grave Reason, A”, The New Leaders 16 Oct. 1925, 12. “Grey Seagull”, SS5. “Hawk, The”, Town & Country, CIII, March 1949, 57, 100-1; 44 Irish Short Stories ed. Devin A. Garrity, New York: Devin-Adair, 1955; SS6, SS7. “His First Flight”, Manchester Guardian, 5 Oct. 1923 (entitled “First Flight”), The Lilliput Annual, I, July 1937, 1-3; Ireland of the Welcomes, XVII, Mar-April 1969, 32-9; SS1, SS4, SS6, SS8. “Hook, The”, The Dublin Magazine, I May 1924, 871-3; SS1, SS4, SS8. “Idle Gossip”, The New Leader, 19 Feb. 1926, 11. “Indian Summer”, GoodHousekeeping, CXX, May 1945, 34-5, 225-33. “In each beginning is an end” [otherwise “Greenwich village”) Fascination, I July 1946, 32-3, 66 [adapted from Two Years, Chap. 23]. “Inquisition, The”, The Adelphi, III, March 1926, 666-73; The Best Short Stories of 1926, ed. E. J. O”Brien, London, 1927; SS2, SS9. “Intellctual, The”, Weekly Westminster, IV, 22 Aug. 1925, 428. “Irish Pride”, Nash”s Pall Mall Magazine, XCVII, June 1926, 39-45; Forum, XCIV Dec. 1935, 343-51; abbrev. as “King of Inishcam”, Living Age, CCCLVII, Nov. 1939, 236-43; SS 13. “It Was the Devil”s Work”, The Wild Swan and Other Stories, London: Joiner & Steele, 1932. “Jealous Hens, The”, Weekly Westminster, 18 Oct. 1924; SS2, SS4, SS12. “Josephine”, SS1. “Lament, The”, Harper”s Bazaar, LXXV, April 1941, 58-9, 114-17; The Bell, XII July 1946, 283-300; SS5. “Landimg, The”, TP”s & Cassell”s Weekly, 24 May 1924; Living Age, CCCXXII, 19 July 1924, 136-9; SSl, SS4, SS6, SS7, SS8. “Letter, The”, The Criterion, VII, June 1928, 58-63; SS3, SS4, SS12. “Life”, American Mercury, LXIV, Feb. 1947, 156-61; SS5, SS6, SS7. “Light”, SS5. “Limpets”, Weekly Westminster, 30 Jan. 1926, 312. “Little White Dog, The”, Manchester Guardian, 24 Oct. 1927; The Bookman (New York), LXVII, April 1928, 145-7; SS3, SS4, SS12. “Lost Thrush, The”, The Chapbook (A Yearly Miscellany), ed. Harold Monro, No. 40, 1925, pp.14-17; SS2, SS4, SS12. “Lovers”, Harper”s, CLXII, April 1931, 528-32; English Review, LIII, Sept. 1931, 437-45; The Best Short Stories of 1932, ed. E. J. O”Brien, London, 1933; Great Irish Short Stories, ed. Vivian Mercier, New York, 1964, SS13. “Mackerel for Sale”, London Mercury, XV, Feb. 1927, 354-61; SS3, SS9. “Matchmaking”, Cassell”s Weekly, 20 June 1923, 443. “Matter of Freedom, A”: (otherwise entitled “Timoney”s Ass”) Tomorrow Magazine, VI, June 1947, 36-7; SS13. “Mermaid, The”,John O”London”s Weekly, 26 Oct. 1929, 101; SS13. “Milkimg Time”, Manchester Guardian, 14 Aug. 1925; The Dial, LXXXIX, Dec. 1925, 491-4; SS2, SS4, SS6, SS7, SS8. “Mirror, The”, Esquire, XL, Nov. 1953, 58, 146; SS6, SS7. “Mother and Son”, Weekly Westminster, 28 Nov. 1925; SS2, SS4, SS6, SS12. “Mountain Tavern, The”, The Monthly Criterion, VI, Aug. 1927, 118-27; ltd. edn., Red Barbara & Other Stories, London: Faber & Gwyer, New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928; SS3, SS4, SS6, SS7. “Mouse, The”, Ldliput, III, 1938, 248-50, 252-3; Coronet, V, Jan-Feb. 1939, 7-10; SS5. “Moving”, Manchester Guardian, 16 Nov. 1925, 16. “New Suit, The”, The Household Magazine, XLIII, Sept. 1943 4, 9; Irish Press, 21 June 1946, 2; SS5, SS6, SS7. “Night Porter, The”, Story, XXX, Jan-Feb. 1947, 23-32. “Oar, The”, Outlook (London), LXI, 14 Jan. 1928, 54-5; ltd. edn., Red Barbara & Other Stories, London: Faber & Gwyer, New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928; SS3, SS4, SS6, SS7, SS12. “Offerings”, Outlook (London), LVII, 13 March 1926, 191; SS2, SS4, SS12. “Old Hunter, The”, Golden Book Magazine, VI, Oct. 1927, 443-6; Irish Writing, no. 21, Nov. 1952, 17-23; SS2, SS4, SS12. “Old Woman, The”, SS5, SS6, SS7. “Ounce of Tobacco, An”, TP”s Weekly, VIII, 8 Oct. 1927, 739-40. “Outcast, The”, The Adelphi, II, Feb. 1925, 725-30; SS2, SS9. “Painted Woman, The”, SS3, SS9, SS12. “Parting, The”, Irish Writing, No. 6, Nov. 1948, 35-43; SS6, SS7. “Patsa or the Belly of Gold”, The London Aphrodite, 1, Aug. 1928, 29-34; SS13. “Pedlar”s Revenge, The”, The Bell, XVIII, June 1952, 148-61; Collier”s, CXXXII, 25 July 1953, 38-43; Ellery Queen”s Mystery Magazine, VIII, Nov. 1956, 56; SS13. “Pig in a Bedroom, A”, The Irish Statesman, 11, 29 March 1924, 71-3; SS1. “Poor People”, Weekly Westminster, 26 Sept. 1925; SS2, SS4, SS12. “Post Office, The”, The Bell, XIX, April 1954, 5-26; SS6. “Pot of Gold, A”, The Irish Statesman, 11, 26 July 1924, 615-17; SS1, SS4, SS8. “Prey”, Outlook (London), LIX, 4 June 1927, 711-12; Bookman (NY), LXVI, Oct. 1927, 193-5. Ltd. edn., Red Barbara S Other Stories, London: Faber & Gwyer, NY: Crosby Gaige, 1928; SS3, SS4, SS12. “Proclamation”, Yale Review, XXI, no. 1, Sept. 1931, 158-66; SS13. “Public House at Night, A”, TP”s and Cassell”s Weekly, 15 Nov. 1924, 151. “Public Scandal A”,Manchester Guardian, 9 Sept. 1925, 16. “Reaping Race The”, The Dublin Magazine, II, Nov. 1924, 257-61; The Best Short Stories of 1926, ed. E J. O”Brien, London, 1927; SS2, SS4, SS12. “Red Barbara”, The London Aphrodite, 11, Oct. 1928, 78-83; ltd. edn., Red Barbara & Other Stories, NY: Crosby Gaige, London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928. SS3, SS4, SS6, SS7, SS12. “Red Petticoat, A”, Tomorrow, 1, Aug. 1924, 1, 3-4, 6. SS2, SS4, SS6, SS12. “Rockfish, The”, SS1, SS4, SS6, SS8. “Salted Goat, The”, The Irish Statesman, 1, 26 Jan. 1924, 616-17; SS13. “Seal, The”, SS5. “Secret Drinking”, This Quarter, 11, July-Aug-Sept. 1929, 109-14. “Selling Pigs”, TP”s and Cassell”s Weekly, 19 Jan. 1924; The Golden Book Magazine, Xll, Sept. 1930, 54-6; SS1, SS9. “Sensualist, The”, SS2. “Shilling, A”, SS1, SS4, SS6, SS7, SS8. “Sinner, The”, SS3, SS4. “Sniper, The”, The New Leader, 12 Jan. 1923; Scholastic, LXIX, 18 Oct. 1956, 18; SS1, SS4, SS8 “Sport: the Kill”, SS1, SS4, SS8. “Spring Sowing”, TP”s and Cassell”s Weekly, 8 March 1924; The Best Short Stories of 1925, ed. E. J. O”Brien, London, 1926; Golden Book Magazine, Xl, May 1930, 36-8; Irish Press, 28 March 1946, 7; SS1, SS4, SS6, SS7, SS8. “Stolen Ass, The”, Manchester Guardian, 3 Dec. 1925; Lilliput, 11, 1938, 397-8, 400; SS2, SS4, SS12. “Stone, The”, SS3, SS4, SS12. “Stoney Batter”, SS2, SS4. “Strange Disease, The”, The Bermondsey Book, A Quarterly Review of Life and Literature, V, Mar/May 1928, 32-7; later included in Seven Years Harvest: an anthology of the Bermondsey Book 1923-1930, ed. Sidney Gutman, London 1934; SS3, SS4, SS12. “Strange Hen, The”, Lilliput, II, 1938, 146-8. “Stream, The”, SS3, SS4, SS12. “Struggle, The”, SS1, SS9. “Swimming”, Weekly Westminster, 27 Dec. 1924, 274. “Tent, The”, The Calendar of Modern Letters, 11, Oct. 1925, 104-11; Irish Writing no. 16, Sept. 1951, 11-17 [slightly different version]; 44 Irish Short Stories, ed. Devin A Garrity, NY: 1955, Irish Stories and Tales, ed. Devin A Garrity, NY: 1956; SS2, SS4, SS6, SS7, SS8. “Terrorist, The”, The New Coterie, II, Spring 1926, 52-6; ltd. edn., London: Archer, 1926; SS2, SS9. “Test of Courage, The”, Esquire, XIX, Feb. 1943, 28, 129-30, 132, 134- SS13. “Three Lambs”, SS1, SS4, SS8. “Tide, The”, SS5, SS6, SS7. “Tidy Tim”s Donkey”, Weekly Westminster, 5 Jan. 1924, 316. “Tin Can”, Weekly Westminster, 3 Jan. 1925, 302; SS13. “Tinker Woman”s Child, The”, TP”s and Cassell”s Weekly, 3 Oct. 1925, 759. “Touch, The”, Irish Writing, I, 1946, 50-8 [text A]; American Mercury, LXIV, May 1947, 549-56 [text B]; SS5, SS6, SS7. “Tramp, The”, SS1, SS4, SS6, SS7, SS8. “Trapped”, SS2, SS4, SS12. “Two Dogs”, Spectator, CXXXI, 8 Dec. 1923, 893; SS1, SS4, SS8. “Two Lovely Beasts”, The Bell, XIII, Dec. 1946, 4-30; Story, XXXI, Nov-Dec. 1947 30-46; SS5, SS6. “Tyrant, The”, Boohman (NY), LXV, Aug. 1927, 691-4; SS2. “Unclean”, The Wild Swan, London: Joiner and Steele (W. Jackson),1932. “Waterhen, The”, Esquire, X, Aug. 1938, 59, 147; SS5, SS6, SS7. “Wave, The”, SS1, SS4, SS8. “Wedding, The”, The Bell, XIII, Oct. 1946, 40-59; SS5, SS6. “White Bitch, The”, Weekly Westminster, 7 June 1924, 176; SS13. “Wild Goat”s Kid, The”, The Dublin Magazine, II, July 1925, 793-8; Dial, LXXIX, Aug. 1925, 137-43; Golden Book Magazine, V, April 1927, 451-4; SS2, SS4, SS6, SS7, SS12. “Wild Man of County Galway, The”, Collier”s, CXXXI, 18 April 1953, 54-63 [cut and altered version of “The Post Office”). “Wild Sow, The”, New Statesman, XXIII 26 April 1924, 65-6; SS1, SS4, SS8. “Wild Stallions”, SS13. “Wild Swan, The”, The Wild Swan, London: Joiner and Steele, 1932; The Evening Standard Book of Best Short Stories, 2nd. ser., London, 1934; SS6. “Wing Three quarter, The”, SS2, SS4, SS6, SS12. “Wolf Lanigan”s Death”, The Irish Statesman, II, 7 June 1924, 391-3; SS1, SS4, SS8. “Wounded Cormorant, The”, The Nation (London), XXXVIII, 28 Nov. 1925, 317-18; 1000 Years of Irish Prose, ed. Mercier and Greene, NY, 1952; SS2, SS4 SS6, SS7, SS12. “Wren”s Nest, The”, The New Leader, 9 May 1924; SS1, SS4, SS8. “Your Honour”, Manchester Guardian, 24 Dec. 1925; Living Age, CCCXXVIII, 20 March 1926, 643-5; SS2, SS9. * Alphabetical listing as given in A. A. Kelly [Angeline A. Hampton], Liam O'Flaherty: The Storyteller (London: Macmillan 1976).
1924-1949
Richard Church, review of Spring Sowing, in Spectator [Literary Supplement] (4 Oct. 1924), p.468.
George Russell [‘AE’], review of The Black Soul, in Irish Statesman (3 May 1924), p.244.
Richard Church, review of Spring Sowing, in Spectator (4 Oct. 1924), [Literary Supplement], p.468.
Maboth Moseley, ‘The Humanity of Liam O’Flaherty’, in The Humanist (May 1927), pp.223.
William Troy, ‘The Position of Liam O’Flaherty’, in Bookman [NY], LXIX (March 1929), pp.7-11.
Willam Troy, ‘Two Years’, in Bookman [NY], LXXII (Nov. 1930), pp.322-3.
Henry C. Warren, ‘Liam O’Flaherty’, Bookman [London], LXXVII (Jan. 1930), pp.235-6.
J. Von Sternemann, ‘Irische Geschichten: Novellen von Liam O’Flaherty’, in Die Neue Rundschau, XLII (April 1931), pp.521-39.
Rhys Davies, ‘Introduction’, The Wild Swan and Other Stories (London 1932), pp.7-10.
Salvatore Rosati, ‘Letteratura Inglese’, in Nuova Antologia, 69 (16 Sept. 1934), pp.317-19.
Louis Paul-Dubois, ‘Un romancier realiste en Erin: M. Liam O'Flaherty', in Revue des Deux Mondes, XXI (15 June 1934), pp.884-904.
Jeanine Delpech, ‘Aux Courses avec O’Flaherty’, in Les Nouvelles Litteéraires (May 1937), [q.p.].
Seán O'Faolain, ‘Don Quixote O'Flaherty', in London Mercury, 37 (Dec. 1937), pp.170-75 [rev. in The Bell, 2, June 1941, pp.28-36].
Gerald Griffin, ‘Liam O’Flaherty’, in The Wild Geese: Pen Portraits of Famous Irish Exiles (London 1938), pp.191-95.
H. E. Bates, The Modern Short Story (London: T. Nelson), pp.157ff.
John V. Kelleher, ‘Irish Literature Today’, in Atlantic Monthly (March 1945), pp.70-6, and The Bell X (1945), pp.337-53.
Frank J. Hynes, ‘The Troubles in Ireland’, in Saturday Review of Literature, XXIX (25 May 1946), p.12.
Peadar O'Donnell, review of The Land, in The Bell, 12, 5 (1946), pp.42-44.
Frank J. Hynes, ‘The Troubles in Ireland', in Saturday Review of Literature, XXIX (25 May 1946), p.12.
Francis Hackett, ‘Liam O’Flaherty As Novelist’, in On Judging Books: In General and in Particular (NY: J. Day 1947), pp.288-93.
Benedict Kiely, ‘Liam O’Flaherty: A Story of Discontent’, in The Month (Sept. 1949), pp.184-93.
Benedict Kiely, ‘Liam O'Flaherty: From the Stormswept Rock …', in The Month (Sept. 1949), rep. in A Raid into Dark Corners and Other Essays (Cork UP 1999), pp.192-202.
1950 - 1969
Riley Hughes, ‘Two Irish Writers’, in America, LXXXIII (2 Sept. 1950), pp.560-61.
Benedict Kiely, Modern Irish Fiction: A Critique (Dublin 1950), pp.17-18, 32-8, 88-90.
Horace Reynolds, ‘A Man, A Mouse and a Wave', review of Two Lovely Beasts, in NY Times (16 July 1950), [q.p.].
Vivian Mercier, ‘Introduction’, The Stories of Liam O’Flaherty (NY: 1956), pp.v-viii.
David H. Greene, ‘New Heights’, in Commonwealth, LXIV (29 June 1956), p.328.
Frank O'Connor, ‘A Good Short Story Must be News', review of The Short Stories of Liam O'Flaherty, in NY Times Review of Books (10 June 1956), 1, p.20.
Donagh MacDonagh, ‘Afterword’ to The Informer, (New York 1961), pp.183-88.
Seán O'Faolain, ‘Fifty Years of Irish Writing', in Studies, LI (Spring 1962), pp.102-03.
George Brandon Saul, ‘A Wild Sowing: The Short Stories of Liam O'Flaherty', in Review of English Literature, 4 (July 1963), pp.28-36 [var. pp.108-13].
Vivian Mercier, ‘The Irish Short Story and Oral Tradition’, in Ray B. Brown, William John Rocelli and John Loftus, eds., The Celtic Cross (West Lafayette 1964), pp. 98-116.
W. B Yeats, ‘Modern Ireland: An Address to American Audience, 1932-33’; rep. in Irish Renaissance, ed., Robin Skelton and David R. Clark [from ‘Irish Gathering’, in Massachusetts Review, 1964] (Dublin: Dolmen 1965), pp.13-25; pp.24.
Vivian Mercier, ‘Man Against Nature: The Novels of Liam O’Flaherty’, in Wascana Review, 1, 2 (1966), pp.37-46.
Anthony Canado, ‘Liam O'Flaherty: Introduction and Analysis ' (Washington Univ. 1966) [diss.].
Thomás de Bhaldraithe, ‘Liam O’Flaherty-Translator (?)’, in Éire-Ireland, 3, 2 (Summer 1968), pp.149-53.
O'Faolain, ‘Speaking of Books: Dyed Irish', in NY Times (12 May 1968) [q.p.].
Michael H. Murray, ‘Liam O’Flaherty and the Speaking Voice,’ in Studies in Short Fiction, V, 2 (1968), pp.154-62.
John Broderick, ‘Liam O’Flaherty: A Partial View’, in Hibernia (19 Dec. 1969), p.17.
1970-1979
Angeline A. Kelly, ‘O’Flaherty on the Shelf’, Hibernia (20 Nov. 1970), p.8.
John Zneimer, The Literary Vision of Liam O'Flaherty (Syracuse: Syracuse UP 1970).
Benedict Kiely, review of John Zneimer, The Literary Vision of Liam O’Flaherty, in New York Times (3 Jan. 1971), p.4.
Angeline A. Hampton, ‘Liam O’Flaherty: Additions to the Checklist’, in Éire-Ireland, 6, 4 (Winter 1971), pp.87-94.
Paul A. Doyle, Liam O'Flaherty (NY: Twayne Publ. 1971), 154pp. [incls. Bibliography, pp.137-49].
Paul A. Doyle, Liam O'Flaherty: An Annotated Bibliography (NY: Whitston Publishing Co., 1972), iii, 68pp.
Helene O'Connor, ‘Liam O'Flaherty, Literary Ecologist', in Éire-Ireland, 7, 2 (Summer 1972), pp.47-54.
Maureen [O'Rourke] Murphy, ‘The Double Vision of Liam O'Flaherty', in Éire-Ireland, 8, 3 (Autumn 1973), pp.20-25.
James H[oward] O’Brien, Liam O’Flaherty (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP 1973), 124pp.
Angeline A. Hampton, ‘Liam O’Flaherty’s Short Stories, Visual and Aural Effects’, in English Studies, 55, 5 (Oct. 1974), pp.440-47.
Richard Ryan, ‘Liam O'Flaherty: A Blackened Soul', in Hibernia (10 May 1974), p.24.
Brian Donnelly, ‘A Nation Gone Wrong: Liam O'Flaherty's ‘Vision of Modern Ireland', in Studies, 63 (1974), pp.71-81.
A. A. Kelly, Liam O'Flaherty the Storyteller (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1976) [infra].
Patrick F. Sheeran, The Novels of Liam O'Flaherty: A Study in Romantic Realism (Dublin: Wolfhound; NJ: Atlantic 1976), 319pp.
Breandán Ó hEithir, ‘Liam Ó Flaithearta agus a dhúchas', in Comhar (Lúnasa 1976) [q.p.].
Seán Ó Faolain, ‘Dúil', in John Jordan, ed., The Pleasures of Gaelic Literature (Mercier/RTÉ 1977) [q.p.].
Peter Costello, The Heart Grown Brutal: The Irish Revolution in Literature from Parnell to the Death of W. B. Yeats, 1891-1939 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan; NJ: Rowman & Littlefield 1977), pp.113-16.
Brendan Kennelly, ‘Liam O'Flaherty, The Unchained Storm: A View of His Short Stories', in Patrick Rafroidi & Terence Brown, eds., The Irish Short Story (Lille 1979), pp.175-87 [rep. in Journey into Joy: Selected Prose, ed. Ake Persson, Bloodaxe 1994, pp.198-208.
Maureen [O'Rourke] Murphy, ‘“The Salted Goat”: Devil's Bargain or Fable of Faithfulness?', in Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 5, 2 (1979), pp.60-61.
1980-1999
John Broderick, ‘Roots’, review of Famine, in The Irish Times (19 Jan 1980), [q.p.].
Micheal D. Higgins, ‘Liam O'Flaherty and Peadar O'Donnell: Images of Rural Community', in Crane Bag, 9, 1 (1985), pp.41-48.
George Jefferson, ‘The Man from Aran’, London Magazine (Aug.-Sept. 1985), pp.73-81.
Alexander Gonzalez, ‘Liam O'Flaherty's Urban Short Stories', in Études Irlandaises, 12, 1 (1987), pp.85-91.
William Daniels, ‘Introduction to the Present State of Criticism of Liam O'Flaherty's Collection of Short Stories: Dúil', in Éire-Ireland, 23, 2 (Summer 1988), pp.124-32.
Brendan Kennelly, ‘O’Flaherty His Mark’, in The Irish Times (3 Sept. 1988), ‘Week-end’, p.7.
Hedda Friberg, ‘Women in Three Works by Liam O’Flaherty: In Search of an Egalitarian Impulse’, in Birgit Bramsbäck, ed., Homage to Ireland: Aspects of Culture, Literature and Language [Acta Univ. Usaliensis] (Uppsala 1990) [q.p.].
James Cahalan, Liam O'Flaherty: A Study of the Short Fiction (Boston: Twayne 1991).
George Jefferson, Liam O'Flaherty: A Descriptive Bibliography (Dublin: Wolfhound 1992), 176pp.
Hedda Friberg, An Old Order and a New: The Split World of Liam O'Flaherty's Novels [dissertation] (Uppsala UP 1996), 266pp. [incls. primary & sec. bibl.].
Peter Costello, Liam O'Flaherty's Ireland (Dublin: Wolfhound 1997), 125pp., ill. [16 photos].
James M. Cahalan, Double Visions: Women and Men in Modern and Contemporary Irish Fiction (Syracuse UP 1999), 234pp.
2000-
Patrick F. Sheeran, The Informer [Ireland into Film Ser.] (Cork UP 2002), 98pp.
Declan Kiberd, ‘After the Revolution: O’Casey and O’Flaherty’, in Irish Classics (London: Granta 2000), pp.482-99.
Liam Harte, ‘Liam O’Flaherty’, in W. J. McCormack, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Irish Literature (Oxford 1999; 2001), p.442.
W. B. Yeats, ‘Modern Ireland: An Address to American Audience, 1932-33, in Irish Renaissance, ed., Robin Skelton and David R. Clark [from ‘Irish Gathering’, in Massachusetts Review, 1964], Dublin: Dolmen, 1965, pp.13-25; pp.24.
George Russell (AE), reviewing of The Black Soul, in Irish Statesman, 3 May 1924.
Seán O’Faolain, quoted in in Benedict Kiely, ‘Liam O'Flaherty: From the Stormswept Rock …', The Month, Sept. 1949; rep. in A Raid into Dark Corners and Other Essay, Cork UP 1999, pp.192-202, p.193.. Seel alaos O’Faolain, The Irish, 1947, p.138.
Jim Phelan, The Name’s Phelan (1948; rep. 1993).
Peter Costello, The Heart Grown Brutal: The Irish Revolution in Literature from Parnell to the Death of Yeats 1891-1939 (Gill & Macmillan 1977), p.115.
Benedict Kiely, ‘Liam O’Flaherty: From the Stormswept Rock …’, in A Raid into Dark Corners and Other Essays, Cork UP 1999.
Richard Fallis, The Irish Renaissance: An Introduction to Anglo-Irish Literature (1978), p.210.
Patrick Sheeran, The Novels of Liam O'Flaherty: A Study in Romantic Realism (Dublin: Wolfhound; NJ: Atlantic 1976).John Broderick, ‘Roots’, reviewing Famine, in The Irish Times (19 Jan. 1980).
James Cahalan, Great Hatred, Little Room: The Irish Historical Novel (Syracuse, NY:Syracuse UP 1983), passim.
Seamus Deane, A Short History of Irish Literature (London: Hutchinson & Co. 1986), p.218.
Margaret Kelleher, ‘Irish Famine in Literature', in Cáthal Portéir, ed., The Great Irish Famine [Thomas Davis Lectures Series] (RTÉ/Mercier 1995).
Margaret Kelleher, The Feminization of Famine: Expressions of the Inexpressible (Cork UP 1998), writes of Famine that through Captain Chadwick ‘O’Flaherty signals the degenerate nature of English rule’ in its critical responsibility for the devastating character of the famine. (p.138;quoted in Patrick Meehan, UG Essay, UUC 2003.)
Hedda Friberg, An Old Order and a New: The Split World of Liam O'Flaherty's Novels [dissertation] (Uppsala UP 1996).
Mary Campbell. review of Liam O'Flaherty reprint edns., in Books Ireland (q. iss., 1993)
Kevin Kiely, review of A. A. Kelly, The Letters of Liam O'Flaherty (1997), Books Ireland, q.d.
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Desmond Clarke, Ireland in Fiction, Pt. II (1985), lists Thy Neighbour’s Wife (London: Jonathan Cape 1923); The Black Soul (London: Jonathan Cape 1924, also NY 1925 and Bath: Lythway 1972); Spring Sowing (Cape 1924), stories; The Informer (London: Jonathan Cape 1925); Darkness (London: E. Archer, 1926), trag. in 3 acts; The Fairy Goose and Two Other Stories (London: Crosby Gaige 1927; Faber 1928), stories; The Tent and other stories (London: Cape 1926); Mr. Gilhooley (London: Jonathan Cape 1926); The Assassin (London: Jonathan Cape 1928); The House of Gold (London: Jonathan Cape 1929); The Mountain Tavern (London: Jonathan Cape 1929); The Ecstasy of Angus (London: Joiner & Steel 1931); Skerritt (London: Gollancz 1932); The Wild Swan and Other Stories (London: Joiner & Steel 1932), Two Years (1930); I Went to Russia (1931); stories; The Martyr (London: Gollancz 1933); Shame the Devil (London: Grayson & Grayson 1934); Hollywood Cemetery (1935), novel/autobiog.; Famine (London: Gollancz 1937); Land (Gollancz 1946); Two Lovely Beasts and Other Stories (London: Gollancz 1948); Insurrection (Gollancz 1950); The Short Stories of Liam O’Flaherty (London: Jonathan Cape 1937); The Stories of Liam O’Flaherty (NY: Devin-Adair 1956), intro. Vivian Mercier; The Pedlar’s Revenge (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1976) [mostly any with same-year American eds. by sundry publishers in New York); Dúil [Desire] (Dublin: Sairseal & Dill 1953), stories; Darkness (1926), a play [corr. DIL]. Also The Return of the Brute (London: Mandrake 1929); A tourist’s Guide to Ireland (Mandrake 1929).
Seamus Deane, gen. ed., Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Derry: Field Day 1991), Vol. 2, selects only ‘The Mountain Tavern’ from the collection of stories of that name (1929), which it ranks along with ‘Guests of the Nation’ (O’Connor) and ‘Midsummer Madness’ (O’Faolain) as dramatizations of war and its havoc on the human family. Author cited in Vol. 3 as Liam Ó Flaithearta (Liam O’Flaherty), with BIOG [as supra]; notes two distinct periods of short-stories in Irish, early 1920s, and late 1940s early 1950s. Bibl. lists Dúil, Sáirseal & Dill 1953. Vol. 3 selects from Spring Sowing, ‘Going into Exiles’ [117-22]; Dúil, ‘An Chulaith Nua’, ‘The New Suit’ [pp.838-44]; pp.815-16, BIBL, 128 incl. Brendan Kennelly, ‘Liam O’Flaherty, The Unchained Storm. A View of His Short Stories’, in P. Rafroidi and T. Brown, eds., The Irish Short Story (Lille 1979), pp.175-87; John N. Zneimer, The Literary Vision of Liam O’Flaherty (Syracuse UP 1970); also, Peadar O’Donnell, review of The Land by Liam O’Flaherty in The Bell, 12, no. 5 (1946), pp.42-44; BIO-BIBL, 933 [as above].
Helena Sheehan, Irish Television Drama (1987), citing The Informer, dir. John Ford (USA 1935), 91 mins.; concerns Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen), with strength and brain of ox, betrays his only friend, IRA man Frankie McPhillip, to Black and Tans; adapted from novel by O’Flaherty, evokes expressionist night-city with almost non-existent sets; insistent musical score and relentless crucifixion symbolism can be hard going today, feeling of society in grip of civil war as electric as ever. [Program of Walter Reade Theatre, 1994]. RTE Film, Going into Exile, Liam O’Flaherty/Tony Barry, adpt. Eoin Ó Suilleachain (1969); Land, 94, 107, 114, 121, Liam O’Flaherty/Louis Lentin (1966), 8 episodes. See.
Kevin Rockett, et al., eds., Cinema & Ireland (1988), citing The Informer (1929), 59 [silent version made in Britain by American born dir. of German films, Arthur Robison]; The Informer (1935), 17 [dir. John Ford and made in Hollywood, featuring J. M. Kerrigan, previously Irish director of eight films for the Film Company of Ireland], 59 [led directly to his Ford’s second Irish project, The Plough & the Stars], 96 154 [national attempt to build on Ford’s success], 183 [Cal compared to], 185n11 [film noir], 234 [compared with Odd Man Out by C. C. O’Brien], [compared in Irish violence genre 265]. ALSO, The Puritan (filmed in French 1938, dir. Jeff Musso), Rockett, op. cit. p.59. 185n2.
Anthony Slide, in Kevin Rockett, et al., eds, Cinema and Ireland (1988), pp.79-81 [ill.], discusses Ford’s version of The Informer won him the first of four Academy Awards for direction, as well as Best Actor for McLaglen as Gypo Nolan, Best Music for Max Steiner, and Best Writing for Dudley Nichols. Slide comments: ‘Although the film is well made and intelligently produced, The Informer fails to come to grips with the political situation in Ireland and seems to go out of its way to avoid controversy; despite this, the film was initially banned in the then-Irish Free State.’
A. N. Jeffares & Anthony Kamm, eds., An Irish Childhood, An Anthology (London: Collins 1987), incls. ‘The New Suit’.
Bernard Share, Far Green Fields, 1500 Years of Irish Travel Writing, ed. (Blackstaff 1992), incls. an extract from Two Years (Jon. Cape 1933; first publ. 1930).
Peter Fallon & Seán Golden, eds., Soft Day, A Miscellany Of Contemporary Irish Writing (Notre Dame/Wolfhound 1980), incls. The Mermaid’.
Andrew Carpenter & Peter Fallon, eds., The Writers: A Sense of Place (Dublin: O’Brien Press 1980), incls. ‘The Widow’ [unfinished story], with photo-port., pp.154-56.
Alexander G. Gonzalez, ed., Short Stories from the Irish Renaissance: An Anthology (Whitston 1993), incls. ‘Spring Sowing’, portrait of newly-married couple performing this ritual for the first time; ‘The Tramp’, balancing allure of road with appeal of security in flavoured conversation; ‘The Outcast’, driven to suicide by unforgiving orthodoxy; ‘The Fall of Joseph Timmins’, domestic drama of sexuality, greed and blackmail
Wolfhound Press, The Assassin (1993 Edn.), title-page verso lists Famine; Short Stories ['The Pedlar’s Revenge and Other Stories]; The Wilderness; Skerrett; The Assassin; Mr. Gilhooley; Thy Neighbour’s Wife; The Ecstasy of Angus; The Black Soul; Shame the Devil (autobiography); All Things Come of Age [and] The Test of Courage, illustrated by Terence O’Connell; also forthcoming, A Tourist’s Guide to Ireland; A. A. Kelly, ed., Letters of Liam O’Flaherty, ed.; George Jefferson, A Descriptive Bibliography; The Collected Stories of Liam O’Flaherty.
Hyland Catalogue (No. 214) lists The Informer (1st US edn., 1925); The Assassin (1928); The Mountain Tavern and Other Stories (1929); Do. (Tauchnitz ed., 1929) [contemporary with 1st ed.]; Two Years (1930); The Puritan (1st gen. ed. 1932) [dated 24th Jan. 1932, one day before official publ.]; Skerrett (1932); Famine (1937); Two Lovely Beasts and Other Stories (1948) .
Wolfhound Press Catalogue (1993), lists Short Stories of Liam O’Flaherty (Dublin: Wolfhound Press 1989), 222pp [pb 0 86327 225 8]; George Jefferson, Liam O’Flaherty, A descriptive bibliography of his works, [hdb. 35£]; Skerrett; The Assassin; Insurrection; also A. A. Kelly, The Letters of Liam O’Flaherty (Wolfhound 1993), 200pp [0-86327 380 7; actual release 1996].
COPAC, ORIGINAL EDITIONS: The wild swan and other stories; by; with a frontispiece by P.V. Moon; and a foreword by Rhys Davies (1932); The martyr (1934); The assassin (1928); The mountain tavern and other stories (1929); The wild swan, and other stories; by; with a frontispiece by P.V. Moon and a foreword by Rhys Davies (1932); The house of gold (1929); Return of the brute (1929); Shame the devil (1934); Skerrett (1932); The tent (1926); The Puritan (1932); The stars, the world, and the women; By Rhys Davies with a foreword by and an illustration by Frank C. Pape (1930); The informer (Dent/Four Square 1958); The black soul (1928); Shame the devil (1934); Spring sowing (1927); Skerrett (1932); I went to Russia (1931); Duil; Liam O Flaithearta (1953). INTERMEDIATE EDITIONS: The informer: a novel [new rep. edn.] (London: Cape 1971) [i.e.1972], 272pp.; More short stories of Liam O’Flaherty (Dent 1971); Thy neighbour’s wife (Bath: Lythway Press Ltd 1972), 350pp. [Portway Combe Park, Bath, Somerset BA1 3NF]; The short stories of [New English Library] (London: Dent 1970); The Puritan (Bath : Lythway Press 1973), 3-326pp.; Der Stromer: 21 Erzahlungen aus Irland; [von]; herausgegeben, ubersetzt und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Elizabeth Schnack [...]; 8 Farbzeichnungen und 41 einfarbige Abbildungen nach Radierungen von Gertrude Degenhardt Frankfurt am Main: Buchergilde Gutenberg 1975), 180pp., ill. [short stories]; The sniper; [and], Spring sowing; [and], Going into exile; [edited and simplified by Michael Reynolds] [Cambridge English language learning, 5] (Cambridge UP 1977), [1], 34pp. [text on inside cover]; Die Landung: 12 stories [Story - Bibliothek; hrsg. und aus dem Englischen ubersetzt von Elisabeth Schnack] (Munchen: Nymphenburger 1959), 144pp.; Das Zicklein der Wildgeiss: Tiergeschichten; [ubertragen von Elisabeth Schnack] (1958); Famine [New English Library] (London: Dent 1966); The assassin (Bath: Cedric Chivers 1969). MODERN EDITIONS: Short stories (1990); The informer (1989); 3. The short stories of (1986); Leargas ar ‘Duil’ Ui Fhlaithearta; le Fiachra O Dubhthaigh (1981); Land (1946); The black soul (1972); The pedlar’s revenge; selected and introduced by A.A. Kelly (1976); The ecstasy of Angus; illustrated by Lucy Kilroy; afterword by A.A Kelly (1978); The wilderness; illustrations by Jeanette Dunne; edited for publication by A.A. Kelly (1978); The informer (1989); Liam O’Flaherty’s short stories (1981); Liam O’Flaherty’s short stories (1981); Shame the devil (1981); The black soul (1981); Famine (1979) [counter details: St Lucia, University of Queensland Press 1980, 448pp. orig. London: Gollancz, 1937); Short stories : The pedlar’s revenge and other stories; selected and introduced by A.A. Kelly (1982); The test of courage (Dublin: Wolfhound 1977), 2-27pp., illustrations by Terence O’Connell; 41. All things come of age and The test of courage; illustrated by Terence O’Connell (Wolfhound 1984); The wave and other stories; selected and edited by A.A. Kelly (1980); The test of courage; illustrations by Terence o’Connell (Wolfhound 1977); Liam O’Flaherty’s short stories (1981); All things come of age: a rabbit story (1977); Skerrett (Dublin: Wolfhound 1977); Insurrection (Wolfhound 1988), 254pp.
Belfast Public Library The Black Soil (1925, 1928); Ecstasy of Angus (1931); Fairy Goose (1927); Famine (1937); Hollywood Cemetary [corrig.] (1935); House of Gold (1929; The Informer (1929); Life of Tim Healy (1927, 1929); The Martyr (1933); Mr. Gilhoolery (1926); Spring Sowing (1924); Thy Neighbour’s Wife (1923); A Tourists Guide to Ireland (1930); Two Years (1930). ALSO, Liam O’Flaherty, Das Zicklein de Wildgeiss, Tiergeschichten; ubertragen von Elisabeth Schnck zichnungen von Gerhard M Hotop (Munich: Kosel-Verlag 1958), 129pp.
Tom, the elder brother of the novelist, was presented with a copy of Seadna by Sir Roger Casement, adding: ‘Novel is too large a term of Seadna, which is essentally a retelling in novel form of the folktale ofr the man who sold his soul to the devil. This book, with two others, A. M. Sullivan’s The Story of Ireland and the Gaelic Version of Fairies at Work by William P. Ryan, are the only books we hear of in the O’Flaherty household.’ (Patrick Sheeran, Novels of Liam O’Flaherty, 1976, p.57.) Note that Sheeran also gives an account of the English curriculum at Rockwell, where O’Flaherty read Kingsley’s Heroes, Macauley’s Lays of Ancient Rome; Scott’s Lady of the Lake and selections from the Spectator; and sel. chaps. of Coleridge’s Biog. Literaria with selections from Wordsworth - respectively in Junior, Middle and Senior classes. (p.59.)
The Informer (1925): Novel set in the post-Civil War period concerning with Gypo Nolan, a brutish man who sells his fellow-revolutionary Frankie McPhillip for £20 and lays the blame on Rat Mulligan, another quasi-communist revolutionary before dying in a hail of bullets in a church after his mistress Katie Fox betrays him to Comm. Gallagher. According to Patrick Sheeran (The Informer, [Ireland into Film Ser.] Cork UP 2002), O’Flaherty wrote the story with a view to having it made into a German film, with the result that all the hallmarks of German Expressionism are contained in the original writing. John Ford shifted the events back to the War of Independence in order to make the Black and Tans the bad guys and to accord with the simplified view of Irish history among Irish Americans. Note that Micheál MacLiammóir appeared as Gypo in a Gate Theatre adaptation of The Informer (see l MacLiammóir, Enter Certain Players, Dolmen 1978).
Patrick Sheeran (Novels of Liam O’Flaherty, 1976) documents the letter written by David O’Callaghan, O’Flaherty’s former teacher, to the Galway Express (28 Feb. 1914) giving a plaintiff account of his eviction ‘at the suit of Rev. M. Farragher, PP, Aran Islands’, continuing: ‘The late Mr W. E. Gladstone styled an eviction "a sentence of death". These sentences were carried out in the past by a few evicting landlords, but it is rather a novel incident for a priest professing national sentiments to play the role of an evictor. Trusting you will kindly insert this - I am [&c.]’ Sheeran notes that the circumstances are treated by Elizabeth Rivers in Stranger in Aran while ‘various fantastic elaborations of it’ have entered local folklore. (Sheeran, op. cit., p.174.)
For an account of Liam O’Flaherty’s life in London - or those parts of it having to do with gambling - see Francis Stuart, Black List, Section H (Southern Illinois UP 1971; rep edn. London: Martin Brian & Kee 1975). Note that James Cahalan attributes to O’Flaherty the foundation of To-morrow, normally attributed to Francis Stuart.
John Ford’s film version of The Informer moved the action from Civil War to the War of Independence to circumvent hostile reception, but was nevertheless banned in Ireland.
Double-vision: see titles James M. Cahalan, Double Visions: Women and Men in Modern and Contemporary Irish Fiction (Syracuse UP 1999), 234pp. and Maureen Moseley, ‘The Double Vision of Liam O'Flaherty', in Eire-Ireland, VIII, 3 [q.d.], pp.20-25.
The Radical Club that O’Flaherty with Francis Stuart, Cecial Salkeld, Austin Clarke, F. R. Higgins, Brinsley MacNamara and Padraig Ó Conaire is the subject of remarks in Sean O’Casey’s Inisfallen, Fare Thee Well: ‘a group fo young writers disliked his [Yeats’s] booming opinions on literature and insubstantial things without any local habitation or name [... &c.’]. (See Patrick Sheeran, Novels of Liam O’Flaherty, 1976, p.84-85; see further remarks under O’Casey, Quotations - viz., ‘he [Sean] saw clear enough that O'Flaherty [...] was worse than Yeats, without the elder man's grace and goodwill [... &c.]’.)
Flaherty’s letters to Edward Garnett, 5 May 1923-3 March 1932, are among those held in the Academic Centre Library of the University of Texas at Austin, Texas (USA). Other letters are held in the Correspondence of F. R. Higgins in the National Library of Ireland. (Patrick Sheeran, Novels of Liam O’Flaherty, 1976, Bibl.; p.315.)
Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)