Three Leaves of a Bitter Shamrock
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Three wildly imaginative essays by Irish satirists Jonathan Swift, Liam O'Flaherty, and Tomás Mac Síomóin. Written in three different centuries, they propose grotesque and outrageous solutions to the social problems created by the established political order, especially unemployment and austerity. These essays entertain and shock while focusing attention on those very problems.
Liam O'Flaherty
Liam O’Flaherty was a major Irish novelist and short story writer. He is known as one of the foremost socialist writers in the first part of the twentieth century, writing about the common people’s experience from their perspective.
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