Patrick O'Flaherty (writer), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About Patrick O'Flaherty (writer)
- Patrick O'Flaherty CM (October 6, 1939 – August 16, 2017) was a Newfoundland and Labrador writer, historian, and academic. He was born in Long Beach, part of Northern Bay, Conception Bay.
- He received a B.A.
- and M.A.
- from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and obtained his Ph.D.
- from University College London in 1963.
- After teaching at the University of Manitoba, in 1965 he joined the English department at Memorial, where he was later Professor and Head (1982-1987).
- He retired in 1995 and held the position of Professor Emeritus.
- He was married to Marjorie Doyle, a writer and broadcaster, and had three sons from a previous marriage. Patrick O'Flaherty was the author of two books of short stories, Summer of the Greater Yellowlegs (1987) and A Small Place in the Sun (1989), and two novels, Benny's Island (1994) and Priest of God (1989).
- In 1979 he published The Rock Observed, a survey of writing about Newfoundland and Labrador.
- His travel guide Come Near at your Peril (first published 1992), a sardonic but affectionate look at tourism in Newfoundland, is now in its third edition. In collaboration with historian Peter Neary, he wrote Part of the Main: An Illustrated History of Newfoundland and Labrador (1983) and edited By Great Waters (1977), an anthology of writing about Newfoundland and Labrador.
- O'Flaherty later completed three volumes on Newfoundland political history, Old Newfoundland: A History to 1843 (1999), Lost Country: The Rise and Fall of Newfoundland 1843-1933 (2005), and Leaving the Past Behind: Newfoundland History from 1934 (2011). In 2007 he became a Member of the Order of Canada.
- O'Flaherty was notably part of the wide Irish diaspora in Newfoundland, and is recognized as a modern Irish contributor to literature and research. He drowned in a swimming accident in August 2017.
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