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The wind came steadily, like the rushing of a great cataract heard at a great distance, but the noises of the sea were continually changing, rising and falling, with the stupendous modulations of an orchestra played by giants.

Liam O'Flaherty

I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.

Liam O'Flaherty

Ours is the wild tumult of the unchained storm, the tumult of the army on the march, clashing its cymbals, rioting with excess of energy. Need we be ashamed of it?

Liam O'Flaherty

He [the informer] was a poor weak human being like themselves, a human soul, weak and helpless in suffering, shivering in the toils of the eternal struggle of the human soul with pain.

Liam O'Flaherty

When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.

Liam O'Flaherty

Liam O'Flaherty

Liam O'Flaherty

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Born: August 28, 1896

Died: September 7, 1984 (aged 88)

Bio: Liam O'Flaherty was a significant Irish novelist and short story writer and a major figure in the Irish literary renaissance.

Known for:

The Informer (1925)
The Black Soul (1924)
Return of the Brute (1929)
Famine (1937)
Mr. Gilhooley (1926)

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