The sniper introduction!

The sniper is a story written during the Irish conflict. The author is Liam O’Flaherty. Liam was a significant Irish novelist and short story writer. The sniper was one of his first published works.
The story takes place in Dublin, in the Republic of Eire, not in Northern Ireland of today.
In The sniper we meet a person who works as a sniper shooter for the Free Starters or Republicans, one of the two parts in the conflict. The story is being told from a third person. The name of the sniper shooter is never being told in the story. And he just speaks once during the short story.

The story starts when the sniper sees an armored car slowly driving into the street. Then an old woman comes around the corner and goes straight over to the man in the armored car. She point up to the place where the sniper lays. She is an informer. Suddenly the turret open and a man look out. The sniper takes his rifle and shoots his head off. The old woman starts running down the street. The sniper fire again, and the old woman falls down in the gutter. Suddenly an enemy sniper across the street fires a shoot. It hits the sniper in the right forearm. The sniper can’t use his rifle now, so he reaches for his pistol and take a steady aim. Then, out of the smoke he sees the enemy fell down dead. The streets are now empty and quiet. The sniper takes his weapons and walk down from the roof. When he come down to the street he turn the enemy snipers body and see that it is his brother.

I think that Liam describe a scene that I really think could be a real one, from the Irish civil war. The Irish civil war was starting because the establishment of the Irish Free State became independent from Britain. It was a lot of people that didn’t like that. Especially the Irish Republicans did not like it. This was the main reason for the Irish civil war. The war was won by the Irish Free State.

The sniper has the theme of the tragedy of war, particularly the tragedy of civil war.