Oliver St. John Gogarty

Oliver St. John Gogarty [ gō'gurtē ] ( born August 17, 1878 in Dublin, Ireland, † September 22, 1957 in New York City ) was an Irish writer. He was also a sportsman, doctor, pilot, member of the crowd and 1922-1936 Senator in the Irish Parliament.

Biography

Gogarty, either loved or despised by his contemporaries, poor people supported as well as the Irish resistance and hosted from 1904 literary circles on Dunguaire Castle, attended by, among others Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, George Bernard Shaw, John Millington Synge and William Butler Yeats. Neutral become known Gogarty as literary model for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's Ulysses.

In September 1904 Gogarty, who had met as a student in the National Library of Oxford James Joyce spent, along with Richard and Samuel Dermot Chenevix Trench, son of Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench, who also studied at Oxford, a week at the Martello Tower Sandycove in Dun Laoghaire. During this week Gogarty and Joyce took excursions together, but there were also tensions between the two, the processed Joyce in the first chapter of Ulysses. During the Civil War, he was to be arrested by the IRA, escaped his captors but by jumping in a hail of bullets into the River Liffey in Dublin. Gogarty, promised to release on the Liffey a pair of swans, and thought this event later in the poem: A gift of Swans ( 1923). 1921 Gogarty supported the flight of Linda Kearns MacWhinney ( 1889-1951 ), May Burke and Eileen Kohoe from the Mountjoy prison by asking his car. He supported the negotiated by Griffith and Collins compromise that resulted in the Northeast establishing the Irish Free State to the exclusion of the six provinces.

Among his works are the memories of Joyce, Yeats and other sizes of the Irish literary renaissance in It Is not This Time of Year at All! (1954).

Works

  • An Offering of Swans (1923 )
  • Wild Apples ( 1928)
  • As I Was Going Down Sackville Street ( 1937)
  • Others to Adorn (1938 )
  • Tumbling in the Hay (1939 )
  • Collected Poems (1954 )
  • A Week End in the Middle of the Week (1958 )
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