WRITER

Liam O'Flaherty

1896 - 1984

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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 one of the foremost socialist writers in the first part of the 20th century, writing about the common people's experience and from their perspective. Others are Seán O'Casey, Pádraic Ó Conaire, Peadar O'Donnell, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, and Seosamh Mac Grianna all of them Irish language speakers who chose to write either in Irish or English. Liam O'Flaherty served on the Western Front as a soldier in the British army's Irish Guards regiment from 1916 and was badly injured in 1917. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Liam O'Flaherty has received more than 500,846 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Liam O'Flaherty is the 5,986th most popular writer (down from 5,497th in 2019), the 291st most popular biography from Ireland (down from 282nd in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Irish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 500k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Insurrection
Fiction, History
1950
Famine
Famines, Fiction, History
1937
Skerrett
1932
Short stories
Fiction, Ireland, Social life and customs
1937
The Informer
Fiction, History, Ireland
1925
The short stories of Liam O'Flaherty
Social life and customs, Short stories, Irish, Fiction
1937

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Liam O'Flaherty ranks 5,986 out of 7,302. Before him are William Bell Scott, Vjenceslav Novak, George Holyoake, Francis Chichester, Jean Dutourd, and Khushwant Singh. After him are Mihkel Veske, Richard Russo, Sarah Moore Grimké, Vladimir Tendryakov, Liao Yiwu, and Leszek Engelking.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Liam O'Flaherty ranks 244. Before him are Józef Kałuża, Simon Barere, Okuro Oikawa, Charles Pahud de Mortanges, Gopal Swarup Pathak, and Alister Hardy. After him are Lawrence Tibbett, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Natalie Talmadge, Ian Wolfe, Herb Drury, and Manuel Rojas. Among people deceased in 1984, Liam O'Flaherty ranks 241. Before him are Pascale Ogier, Eino Purje, Jan Peerce, Otto Arosemena, Roland Penrose, and Paul Felix Schmidt. After him are Vladimir Tendryakov, Rudolf Stahl, Ramón Tapia, Andrea Leeds, Karl Neumer, and Franz Fühmann.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Liam O'Flaherty ranks 291 out of 549. Before him are Tony Dunne (1941), Charlie McGettigan (1950), Richard Mulcahy (1886), William Stokes (1804), Michael McElhatton (1963), and Stephen Gately (1976). After him are Albert Reynolds (1932), Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (1715), Denis Irwin (1965), Graham Norton (1963), Brian Shawe-Taylor (1915), and Mary Proctor (1862).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Liam O'Flaherty ranks 42. Before him are William McGonagall (1825), Michael Scott (1959), Eoin Colfer (1965), Sydney, Lady Morgan (1776), Colum McCann (1965), and Margaret Mazzantini (1961). After him are Cecelia Ahern (1981), Frank Harris (1856), Nahum Tate (1652), Roddy Doyle (1958), Frances Power Cobbe (1822), and Terence MacSwiney (1879).

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