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Gogarty, Oliver St. John
Born: 1878 AD
Died: 1957 AD, at 79 years of age.
Nationality: Irish
Categories: Authors, Politician, Surgeon
Died: 1957 AD, at 79 years of age.
Nationality: Irish
Categories: Authors, Politician, Surgeon
1878 - Born at 5 Rutla Square in Dublin on the 17th of August.
1922 - Inspiration for character Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's "Ulysses".
1924 - Gogarty won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games for his poem Ode to the Tailteann Games.
1937 - Gogarty's memoir As I Was Going Down Sackville Street resulted in a libel lawsuit. Henry Sinclair, an uncle of Samuel Beckett's, claimed that Gogarty characterized his grandfather, Morris Harris, as a usurer.
1957 - Died in New York City on the 22nd of September.
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As I Was Going Down Sackville Street by Oliver St. John Gogarty (Paperback - May 6, 1967) |
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