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O'Flaherty

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Irish writer of short stories (1896-1984)

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Another highlight of his career was winning an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Ford's The Informer (1935), based on a novel by Liam O'Flaherty ; Frank Tashlin 's 1938 cartoon Have You Got Any Castles? Source: Internet

Calendar of State Papers Relating to Ireland (Elizabeth I), vol. 207, p. 5. (London 1860–1912) By the early 1560s, O'Malley had left O'Flaherty territory and returned to her father's holdings on Clare Island. Source: Internet

Finally, in 1593, when her sons, Tibbot Burke and Murrough O'Flaherty, and her half-brother, Dónal na Píopa, were taken captive by the English governor of Connacht, Sir Richard Bingham, O'Malley sailed to England to petition Elizabeth I for their release. Source: Internet

Kevin E. O'Flaherty, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS, escorts former President George H. W. Bush, 2009 File:Barack Obama and George H. W. Bush in the Oval Office. Source: Internet

Osmus was held on Arashi; O'Flaherty and Gaido on the cruiser Nagara (or destroyer Makigumo, sources vary); all three were interrogated, and then killed by being tied to water-filled kerosene cans and thrown overboard to drown. Source: Internet

It was his reputed prowess as a marksman that earned him work as an extra at the British International Pictures studio on Arthur Robison 's production of The Informer (1929), Berry (1996), p. 257 the first screen version of the Liam O'Flaherty novel. Source: Internet

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