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This study of Liam O'Flaherty's novels seeks to relate the novels to a way of life that is now almost defunct. . .O'Flaherty inherited a tradition that reached deep into the gaelic way of life, its folklore, myths, legends and superstitions. In his novels, he transmits a sense of the life there which is unmatched as an imaginative portrayal of the contradictions and disharmonies that have both enriched and impoverished our culture and society. /

The James Heehan family immigrated from Ireland to Fayette County, Pennsylvania in 1792, and changed the spelling of the surname to "Meighen." Descendants lived throughout the United States and Canada.