Liam O'flaherty
Liam O'Flaherty was a Irish writer during the 1900s. He served in World War 1 and was diagnosed with shell shock after he returned from the war. Some of the horrors he saw during the war has definitely influenced his writing. The grim theme of "The Sniper" could be a result of his view of war after serving in the trenches on the Western Front. O'flaherty could have seen his friends killed right next to him during the war which could have inspired the theme: there are no true winners in war.