Background
Gogarty was born on August 17, 1878 in Rutland Square, Dublin, to Henry Gogarty, a well-to-do Dublin physician, and Margaret Gogarty (née Oliver), the daughter of a Galway mill owner.
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The young Gogarty, medical student, amateur cyclist, philosopher and lover of good conversation, enjoyed a rowdy, exuberant lifestyle in Dublin in the early 1900s. In this lightly disguised autobiography he gives an intriguing account of the regular round of pubs, pawnshops and bawdy houses of the city, interrupted briefly by the serious business of anatomy exams. His enthusiasm, ready wit and keen observation capture the characters and manners of the city and of the period in an entertaining and highly readable story.
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Gogarty was born on August 17, 1878 in Rutland Square, Dublin, to Henry Gogarty, a well-to-do Dublin physician, and Margaret Gogarty (née Oliver), the daughter of a Galway mill owner.
He was educated at Stonyhurst, Oxford, and at Trinity College, Dublin.
Oliver became a surgeon, and from 1922 to 1936 was also a senator of the Irish Free State.
He was the original of Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's Ulysses. Gogarty lectured in the United States in 1933, and moved there permanently in 1939.
In 1954 he won the $5, 000 fellowship of the Academy of American Poets.
Gogarty's publications after Poems and Plays (1920) became voluminous. They include autobiographical material, fiction, and miscellaneous matter; but aside from his autobiographical novel, As I Was Going Down Sackville Street (1937), his best writing is in his lyrics. These include Selected Poems (1933), Perennial (1944), and Collected Poems (1951). A Week in the Middle of the Week (1958), a collection of essays, was published after his death.
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Quotes from others about the person
William Butler Yeats called him one on whom alcohol "would only have a sobering effect" and "one of the greatest lyric poets of our age"; George Moore termed him "the wildest wit in Ireland. "
In August 1906, Gogarty married Martha Duane.