Oliver St John Gogarty - Parnell Square East, Dublin, Ireland
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Master Mariner
N 53° 21.219 W 006° 15.738
29U E 682203 N 5915106
This polished granite plaque, erected to indicate that Oliver St John Gogarty "was born in this house", is attached to a building on the north east side of Parnell Square East in Dublin.
Waymark Code: WMQWE3
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Date Posted: 04/06/2016
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member bluesnote
Views: 2

The Encyclopaedia Britannica website has an article about Oliver St John Gogarty that tells us:

Oliver St. John Gogarty, (born Aug. 17, 1878, Dublin, Ire.—died Sept. 22, 1957, New York, N.Y., U.S.), writer, wit, and raconteur associated with the Irish literary renaissance whose memoirs vividly re-create the Dublin of his youth.

Gogarty attended Royal University (now University College, Dublin), where he was a fellow student of James Joyce. (He later appeared in Joyce’s Ulysses as the character Buck Mulligan, an identification that he heartily disliked and that proved to be a lifelong irritant to him. He did not take Joyce seriously as an artist.) Gogarty practiced as a surgeon and throat specialist in Dublin, where he became acquainted with W.B. Yeats, George Moore, George Russell (AE), and other leaders of the renaissance. Gogarty wrote the entertaining memoirs As I Was Going Down Sackville Street (1937), Tumbling in the Hay (1939), and It Isn’t This Time of Year at All (1954).

Blue Plaque managing agency: Unknown

Individual Recognized: Oliver St John Gogarty

Physical Address:
5 Parnell Square East
Dublin, Ireland


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