Cahalan, James M. Liam O'Flaherty: A Study of the Short Fiction, Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991.

Concentrating on the shorter works, a critical analysis of O'Flaherty, including a literary biography of influences, a reprinting of early and later reviews and essays.

Doyle, Paul. Liam O'Flaherty, Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1971.

Provides a short biography followed by a critical look at the major texts.

Hildebidle, John. Five Irish Writers: The Errand of Keeping Alive, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.

A look at the lives and works of five writers whom the author thinks are underappreciated: Liam O'Flaherty, Kate O'Brien, Frank O'Connor, Elizabeth Bowen, and Sean O'Faolain

Kelly, Angeline. Liam O'Flaherty the Story Teller, New York: Barnes and Noble, 1976.

Another look at the short fiction, in two sections: I. Themes, Narrative Structure, and Style; II. The Protest of Vitality.