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| Gogarty, Oliver St. John |
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(g ´g rt ) (KEY) , 1878–1957, Irish author. A physician, he also served (1922–36) in the parliament of the Irish Free State. Gogarty is perhaps best known as the model for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce’s Ulysses. As I Was Going down Sackville Street (1937) and It Isn’t This Time of Year at All! (1954) contain reminiscences of Joyce, Yeats, and others in the Irish literary renaissance. | 1 | | See his collected poems (1954); his essays, A Week End in the Middle of the Week (1958); biography by U. O’Connor (1963). | 2 |
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