Liam O'Flaherty was born on 28 April 1896 in Inishmore, Aran Islands, Ireland. He was a writer, known for The Informer (1935), Uptight (1968) and Le puritain (1938). He died on 7 September 1984 in Dublin, Ireland.
A longtime member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), he served for a time as a gunman in the fight against the British occupation of Ireland in the early teens and 1920s.
