Autobiography of liam oflaherty

Regarded as a major figure of the Irish literary renaissance, Liam O'Flaherty () became a founding member of the Community Party of Ireland, and wrote novels and short stories, rather than entering the priesthood as planned.

As a schoolboy fluent in Irish and English, he studied Marxism and attended numerous colleges before enrolling in the National Guard in using the name "Bill Ganly." He found trench warfare extremely monotonous and suffered serious injury and shell shock during the Battle of Langemarck, which contribute to his mental illness beginning in

Two days after the Irish Free State was formed in , O'Flaherty and other unemployed workers in Dublin seized a large concert hall, waiving a red flag for four days protesting the "apathy of the authorities," before surrendering to Free State troops.

After all this disobedience on the homefront, destitute and homeless, O'Flaherty