Comparing Liam O Flaherty's The Sniper And Civil War

Liam O’Flaherty analysis paragraph Liam O’Flaherty wrote short stories that amazed readers all around the world. According to Enotes.com, the way he wrote was strongly impacted by the way his life went. In two of his 183 short stories The Sniper, and Civil war he writes about the Irish civil war. According to “he joined the Irish Guards and was sent to the trenches in France during World War I.”(Haggerty 1). This caused Liam to write many of his stories about war and the struggle people find in it. One of the struggles in The Sniper is being separated from family. He had to at a young age stand up for himself because, according to bloomsbury.com, a publishing site, “...at the age of twelve, he went to Rockwell College, and then went on to study at Holy Cross and University College.” This may have been the reason for

In The Sniper, two brothers are separated and in the end, one kills the other in the confusion. The Informer tells a story of a man who betrays a friend to escape the police. In most cases in the world, good friends are counted as a family because of how close we are to them. So one friend betraying another is in most cases a family betraying each other. Liam O'Flaherty also wrote strongly about Irish struggles during his time. In a New York Times article Joseph Berger states, “In works such as ''The Informer,'' and ''Famine,'' Mr. O'Flaherty wrote of the brittle lives of the Irish people as they sought, often violently, to achieve the dignities of economic self-sufficiency and political independence.”(Berger 1). In The Informer, the friend struggles to stay out of trouble. In his story Famine, he writes about the potato famine in Ireland in the 1940’s. Most of the food grown in Ireland are potatoes. In the book Famine, it must have been hard to find food. Both