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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. 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. After the war, he was a founding member of the Communist Party of Ireland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Liam O'Flaherty has received more than 460,125 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Liam O'Flaherty is the 5,516th most popular writer (down from 4,640th in 2019), the 283rd most popular biography from Ireland (down from 218th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Irish Writer.

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  • 460k

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  • 42.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Liam O'Flaherty ranks 5,516 out of 5,755. Before him are Johan Theorin, Anne Fine, Jurga Ivanauskaitė, John Masefield, Teréz Karacs, and Cecelia Ahern. After him are Robert Coover, Philippe Delerm, Julio Llamazares, Frank Schätzing, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Peter Wohlleben.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Liam O'Flaherty ranks 230. Before him are Vilho Niittymaa, Charles Pahud de Mortanges, V. K. Krishna Menon, Marie Prevost, Carl Abrahamsson, and Heinz Prüfer. After him are Natalie Talmadge, Yip Harburg, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Rodolfo Terlizzi, Okuro Oikawa, and Gopal Swarup Pathak. Among people deceased in 1984, Liam O'Flaherty ranks 219. Before him are Carl Foreman, Luther Adler, Marcel Balsa, José Humberto Quintero Parra, Mark Kac, and Alberta Hunter. After him are Balasaraswati, Otto Arosemena, Rudolf Stahl, Margaret Livingston, Bill Holland, and Bjarne Johnsen.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Liam O'Flaherty ranks 283 out of 501. Before him are Colin O'Donoghue (1981), Margaret Mazzantini (1961), Mairead McGuinness (1959), William Paterson (1745), Tony Dunne (1941), and Cecelia Ahern (1981). After him are Róisín Murphy (1973), Sharon Corr (1970), Patrick Leahy (1877), Milo O'Shea (1926), Brian Downey (1951), and Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Liam O'Flaherty ranks 42. Before him are Eoin Colfer (1965), Terence MacSwiney (1879), John Connolly (1968), Colm Tóibín (1955), Margaret Mazzantini (1961), and Cecelia Ahern (1981). After him are Frank Harris (1856), Colum McCann (1965), Frances Power Cobbe (1822), Roddy Doyle (1958), Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906), and Nahum Tate (1652).

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