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Oliver Joseph St John Gogarty (August 17, 1878 - September 22, 1957) was an Irish
Ireland

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 physician
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 and ear surgeon
Surgery

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, poet
Poet

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 and author
Author

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, one of the most prominent Dublin wit
WIT

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s. He was also a football player for Bohemian F.C.
Bohemian F.C.

Bohemian F.C. , more commonly referred to as Bohemians, is an Republic of Ireland football club, who secured their tenth FAI League of Ireland title in October 2008, and their 7th FAI Cup on 23 November 2008....
 and an Olympic
Olympic Games

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 bronze medallist for literature
Art competitions at the Olympic Games

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. He is remembered as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan
Buck Mulligan

Malachi "Buck" Mulligan is a fictional character in James Joyce's novel Ulysses . At once callous and complex, Mulligan is a Falstaff student of medicine who has offended Stephen Dedalus by calling his mother "beastly dead." Yet later, Mulligan is portrayed as a hero for having saved a man from drowning....
 in James Joyce
James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....
's novel Ulysses
Ulysses (novel)

Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris....
.

at 5 Rutland (now Parnell Square) in Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
, Gogarty was educated at Clongowes Wood College
Clongowes Wood College

Clongowes Wood College is a private secondary boarding school for boys, located near Clane in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1814, it is one of Ireland's oldest Catholic schools, and featured prominently in James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man....
, Stonyhurst College
Stonyhurst College

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 and Trinity College, Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin

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.

Gogarty wrote humorous verse and stories and belonged to the latter period of the Irish Literary Revival.






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Oliver Joseph St John Gogarty (August 17, 1878 - September 22, 1957) was an Irish
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 physician
Physician

A physician, medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, or medical doctor practices medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury....
 and ear surgeon
Surgery

Surgery is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance, or sometimes for some other reason....
, poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
 and author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
, one of the most prominent Dublin wit
WIT

WIT is:* The ticker symbol for Wipro Technologies, India.* The timezone Waktu Indonesia Timur, covering Time_in_Indonesia* National Women's Register - A Women's discussion group in Zimbabwe...
s. He was also a football player for Bohemian F.C.
Bohemian F.C.

Bohemian F.C. , more commonly referred to as Bohemians, is an Republic of Ireland football club, who secured their tenth FAI League of Ireland title in October 2008, and their 7th FAI Cup on 23 November 2008....
 and an Olympic
Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
 bronze medallist for literature
Art competitions at the Olympic Games

Art competitions formed part of the modern Olympic Games during its early years, from 1912 to 1948. The competitions were part of the original intention of the Olympic Movement's founder, Pierre de Coubertin....
. He is remembered as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan
Buck Mulligan

Malachi "Buck" Mulligan is a fictional character in James Joyce's novel Ulysses . At once callous and complex, Mulligan is a Falstaff student of medicine who has offended Stephen Dedalus by calling his mother "beastly dead." Yet later, Mulligan is portrayed as a hero for having saved a man from drowning....
 in James Joyce
James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....
's novel Ulysses
Ulysses (novel)

Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris....
.

Life

Born at 5 Rutland (now Parnell Square) in Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
, Gogarty was educated at Clongowes Wood College
Clongowes Wood College

Clongowes Wood College is a private secondary boarding school for boys, located near Clane in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1814, it is one of Ireland's oldest Catholic schools, and featured prominently in James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man....
, Stonyhurst College
Stonyhurst College

Stonyhurst College is an Headmasters Conference, Roman Catholic school in the Society of Jesus tradition. It is located on the Stonyhurst near Clitheroe in rural Lancashire, England, where it occupies a Grade I listed building....
 and Trinity College, Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin , corporately designated as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I of England as the "mother of a university", and is the only constituent residential college of the University of Dublin....
.

Gogarty wrote humorous verse and stories and belonged to the latter period of the Irish Literary Revival. His verse was admired by W. B. Yeats who included more poems by Gogarty than any other poet in his Oxford Book of English Verse. He was a highly-visible figure in Dublin literary society, and was friendly with, for example, George William Russell
George William Russell

Not to be confused with George William Erskine Russell .George William Russell who wrote under the pseudonym ? , was an Irish people Irish Nationalism, writer, editor, critic, poet, and painter....
 and Lord Dunsany.

Gogarty had a strained relationship with Joyce that ended when Joyce left Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
; Gogarty claimed a gun was involved. One of his best-known verses, The Ballad of Japing Jesus
The Ballad of Japing Jesus

The Ballad of Japing Jesus is a poem by Oliver St John Gogarty. The first two stanzas were printed in Ulysses ....
, was quoted in the first chapter of Ulysses
Ulysses (novel)

Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris....
 as the Ballad of Joking Jesus.

In 1924, Gogarty won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games
Art competitions at the Olympic Games

Art competitions formed part of the modern Olympic Games during its early years, from 1912 to 1948. The competitions were part of the original intention of the Olympic Movement's founder, Pierre de Coubertin....
 for his poem Ode to the Tailteann Games.

Gogarty's 1937 memoir, As I Was Going Down Sackville Street, resulted in a libel lawsuit. Henry Sinclair, an uncle of Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish people writer, dramatist and poet. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalism....
's, claimed that Gogarty characterized his grandfather, Morris Harris, as a usurer. The trial received a fair amount of public attention at the time, and the as-yet-unknown Beckett filed one of two affidavits on behalf of his uncle's lawsuit and played a key role in the trial proper, which Gogarty ultimately lost.

Politics

Gogarty's home was a safe-house during the Irish War of Independence
Irish War of Independence

The Irish War of Independence from January 1919 to July 1921 was a guerrilla warfare mounted against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Ireland by the Irish Republican Army ....
 for various prison escapees (including Linda Kearns). Gogarty would be a political figure of the Irish Free State
Irish Free State

The Irish Free State was the state established as a Dominion on 6 December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed by the British government and Irish representatives exactly twelve months beforehand....
 for a period of time. Gogarty recovered his own hall door key from the body of Michael Collins while he performed an autopsy on his former friend.

Later life, and death

Gogarty moved to the USA for the latter period of his life, and died in New York City
New York City

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, aged 79.

Legacy

A pub in the Temple Bar, Dublin
Temple Bar, Dublin

Temple Bar is an area on the south bank of the River Liffey in central Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Unlike the areas surrounding it, Temple Bar has preserved its medieval street pattern, with many narrow Cobblestone streets....
 district of Dublin is named after him.

Books

  • An Offering of Swans (1923)
  • Wild Apples (1928)
  • As I Was Going down Sackville Street (1937)
  • Others to Adorn (1938)
  • I Follow St Patrick (1938)
  • Mad Grandeur (1941)
  • Intimations (1950)
  • It Isn't This Time of Year at All! An Unpremeditated Autobiography (US edition, Spring 1954; London, MacGibbon & Kee, Autumn 1954)
  • Tumbling in the Hay
  • Collected Poems (1954)
  • A Week End in the Middle of the Week (1958)
  • Rolling Down the Lea
  • Mourning Became Mrs Spendlove
  • Mr Petunia
  • Perennial
  • Going Native


Biography

  • Ulick O'Connor
    Ulick O'Connor

    Ulick O'Connor is an Irish literature writer, historian and critic.Born in Rathgar, County Dublin, he attended St. Mary's College, Rathmines and later University College Dublin, and read law and philosophy, becoming known as a keen sporting participant , as well as a distinguished debater, during his time there ...
    , Oliver St. John Gogarty (1963)


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