Maidhc Ó Flaithearta was a member of the Irish National Land League and father of Liam O'Flaherty, fl. 1882.
Her son, Liam, related the story of the elopement, as told by Maggie: She told it as one tells a fairy-tale to amuse a child, how her handsome young lover came by night on horseback to her father's house and abducted her, at the very moment when another suitor from the mainland was there asking for her hand; how she was married at dawn in the chapel and went off to live in an old deserted house in our village, penniless and unforgiven by her parents.
Maidhc was imprisoned a number of times on suspection of shooting a bailiff, during the Irish Land War.
He and his family, including their first son, Tom Maidhc O'Flaherty, still a child, narrowly escaped eviction.
... My mother always expressed the belief that if my father thought of his own affairs a little more and about those of the community a little less, the world would be a much better place to live in.