Background
He was the son of William J Gogan and was married to Kitty Gogan.
He was the son of William J Gogan and was married to Kitty Gogan.
In later life, he became a Fianna Fáil politician. He saw action at Cabra and at the General Post Office (Government Printing Office). On Easter Monday, 24 April 1916, he was part of a unit that were tasked to take control of three bridges into Dublin, at the North Circular Road, Cabra Road and Cross Guns Bridge on Phibsboro Road.
They came under machine gun and artillery fire from nearby British military units, and an artillery piece sprayed their barricade with shrapnel after which they escaped and took shelter near Ben Eavin House in Glasnevin.
The next report of his participation in the Rising is at the Government Printing Office in Sackville (now O’Connell) Street. Early in the morning of Friday 28 April, he volunteered as a stretcher-bearer to carry the wounded James Connolly out of the Government Printing Office, which was by then on fire.
Under heavy machine-gun fire, he and two others (Sean Price and Paddy Ryan) carried Connolly to an Irish Volunteer position in a mineral water factory on Henry Place. Prior to the Rising, there is a report of Gogan working in a bomb factory at a house called "Cluny" in Clontarf which was used as a Irish Volunteers" munitions base.
Gogan was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Teachta Dála (Territorial Decoration) for the Dublin North–West constituency at the 1954 general election, having previously unsuccessfully contested the 1948 and 1951 general elections.
Gogan held his seat at every subsequent election until he lost his seat at the 1977 general election in the new Dublin Cabra constituency.
Gogan was a member of B company, 1st Battalion Irish Volunteers commanded by Edward Daly.