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1896 Liam O’Flaherty born
August 28 at Gort na gCappal, Inishmore, Aran
Islands
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1908 Attends Rockwell
College, outside Cashel, 1913
Co. Tipperary; and Blackrock
College, Dublin
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1914 One term at Holy Cross
College, Clonliffe;
leaves in December
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1914 One year at University College
Dublin; 1915 studying classics
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1915 Serves in the Irish Guards (2nd
Battalion) 1917 during Great War, in France
and Belgium; wounded
September 1917; discharged with disability pension; returned to England
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1918 Treated at George V military
hospital, Dublin;
granted BA (War Service) by National University of Ireland
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1918 Travelled as ordinary sea-man to
South 1920 America, Greece, Turkey
and Canada; hobo,
lumberjack and other jobs, in Canada
and USA.
Involved with Industrial Workers of the World (‘the
Wobblies’); joins Communist Party.
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1921 November: founder (with others) of
Communist Party of Ireland
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1922 January: seizes Rotunda with party of
unemployed; fights in Civil War; flees Ireland
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1923 First novel, Thy Neighbour’s
Wife, published in London;
begins career as professional writer
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1924 The Black Soul, a novel, and Spring
Sowing, first collection of short stories, published; involved in
publication of To-Morrow magazine.
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1925 The Informer published
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1926 Marries Margaret Barrington; birth of
daughter Pegeen
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1927 The Life of Tim Healy
published. Assasination of Kevin O’Higgins
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1928 The Assasin published
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1929 First film version of The Informer
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1930 Visits Russia, returns through
Poland, Germany and France. Birth of second daughter Joyce
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1932 Election of de Valera to government;
publication of the novel Skerrett. Separation from wife
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1933 Nervous breakdown
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1934 Shame the Devil a wonderful work of
autobiography published. Lives in California for a year, where he meets
Kitty Harding Tailer (d. 1990) who from now would be his life-long
companion.
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1935 John Ford’s version of The
Informer. Hollywood Cemetery published
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1937 Famine, and The Short Stories of Liam
O’Flaherty published French film version of The Puritan
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1938 French film version of Mr
Gilhooly
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1940 Moves to United States; but
travels widely in the Americas with Kitty Tailer
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1946 Returns to Europe; visits
Ireland. Land published
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1948 Two Lovely Beasts published.
Ireland declared a Republic.
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1950 Last novel, Insurrection, published
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1952 Settles in Dublin, with
frequent visits to Paris
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1953 Publication of Dúil, a
collection of stories in Gaelic
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1976 Publication of The Pedlar’s
Revenge and Other Stories by Wolfhound Press, Dublin, followed in
succeeding years by the re-issue of most of his novels by Wolfhound.
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became a member of Aosdana [check
definition of this org]
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awarded the AIB Writer of the Year
Award [check the actual item and date]
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1982 Death of Margaret Barrington
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1983 Visited the Aran Islands for the last
time with his lifelong partner, Kitty Tailer, his nephew journalist and
writer Brendan O Heithir, and Seamus Cashman of Wolfhound Press.
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Sits for portrait sculpture (cast in
bronze) by Anthony Stones. Copies in The National Gallery, Dublin and
University College, Galway
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1984 7 September: dies in Dublin
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1990 Kitty Tailer dies in Dublin [check
date and year]
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1996 The Letters of Liam O’Flaherty
Edited by Dr A. A. Kelly published
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An illustrated biographical volume
with stories and novel extracts extracts entitled Liam
O’Flaherty’s Ireland by Peter Costello published
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