# The Informer — Character guide

> Key figures in The Informer by Liam O’Flaherty.

- [Gypo Nolan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/gypo_nolan.md): A hulking ex-policeman turned revolutionary, Gypo trades his comrade's life for twenty pounds and then must walk the streets with that betrayal burning in his pocket.
- [Commandant Dan Gallagher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/commandant_dan_gallagher.md): The hunted commandant of a revolutionary cell, Gallagher runs interrogations by lamplight and decides, with ashen calm, who among his own men must be wiped out.
- [Katie Fox](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/katie_fox.md): Gypo's lover, a dope-maddened woman of the tenements, she sells his hiding place to the men hunting him and then cannot undo what she has done.
- [Mary McPhillip](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/mary_mcphillip.md): Frankie McPhillip's mother, awake past midnight in a cellar inquiry room, she begs Gallagher not to murder the informer and is answered with a stuffed mouth.
- [Frankie McPhillip](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/frankie_mcphillip.md): The young Intelligence officer whose job Mulholland covets and whose death, delivered by Gypo's whisper, sets every gun in the city looking for a traitor.
- [Bartly Mulholland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/bartly_mulholland.md): A workman's face worn like a conspirator's mask, Mulholland whispers Gypo's name through dark streets and races to Gallagher with the news that the informer is found.
- [Dart Flynn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/dart_flynn.md): Flynn belongs to the tight circle of gunmen and sentries who hold the organization's secret rooms, and he is the one Gallagher trusts to fire first and answer questions later. Even with his jaw shattered and bound in a r
- [The Rat Mulligan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/the_rat_mulligan.md): A seedy informer and hanger-on in the Dublin underworld.
- [Mrs. McPhillip](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/mrs_mcphillip.md): Frankie's mother, a grieving widow who confronts Gypo.
- [Maggie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/maggie.md): A loud, drunken woman from Connemara who frequents the pubs.
- [Peter Mulligan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/peter_mulligan.md): A minor figure in the revolutionary circles, often drunk and belligerent.
- [Betty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/betty.md): An older woman who provides shelter and gossip in the tenements.
- [Biddy Burke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/biddy_burke.md): A sharp-tongued neighbor and friend of Mary McPhillip.
- [Louisa Cummins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/louisa_cummins.md): A young woman courted by several men in the neighborhood.
- [Tommy Connor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/tommy_connor.md): A young man involved in the republican underground.
- [Comrade Hackett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/comrade_hackett.md): A revolutionary comrade of Dan Gallagher, involved in planning.
- [Comrade Curley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/comrade_curley.md): A minor revolutionary figure in the organization.
- [Mary Hynes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/mary_hynes.md): A woman from the neighborhood, briefly mentioned.
- [Father Conroy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_informer_se/characters/father_conroy.md): A priest who appears in the community scenes.

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