Liam O'Flaherty

The Black Soul

Novel exploring moral corruption and spiritual emptiness in modern Ireland

About the author

Liam O'Flaherty
Liam O'Flaherty

O'Flaherty was a turbulent Irish writer whose novels of the Irish Civil War and Aran island life combined naturalist intensity with primitive emotional force. The Informer is his most famous novel, a tense psychological thriller set in revolutionary Dublin.

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