Oliver St. John Gogarty
Oliver St. John Gogarty [gō'gurtē] ( Irish Oiliféir Mag Fhógartaigh ; born August 17, 1878 in Dublin , Ireland ; † September 22, 1957 in New York City ) was an Irish writer. He was also a sportsman, doctor, pilot, member of the in-crowd and from 1922 to 1936 a senator in the Irish Parliament.
biography
Gogarty, either loved or despised by his contemporaries, supported poor people as well as the Irish Resistance and from 1904 organized literary circles at Dunguaire Castle , in which Lady Gregory , Edward Martyn , George Bernard Shaw , John Millington Synge and William Butler Yeats took part . Gogarty is well known as the literary model for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's Ulysses .
In September 1904 Gogarty spent that as a student in the National Library of Oxford had met James Joyce, together with him and Richard Samuel Dermot Chenevix Trench, the son of Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench, who also studied at Oxford, one week in Martello tower of Sandycove near Dún Laoghaire in Ireland. During that week Gogarty and Joyce went on excursions together, but there was also tension between the two, which Joyce dealt with in the first chapter of Ulysses. He was supposed to be arrested by the IRA during the Civil War , but escaped his captors by jumping into the River Liffey in Dublin in a hail of bullets . Gogarty then promised to release a pair of swans on the Liffey and later commemorated this event in the poem: A Gift from the Swans (1923). In 1921 Gogarty helped Linda Kearns MacWhinney (1889-1951), May Burke and Eileen Kohoe escape from Mountjoy Prison by letting his car available. He also supported the compromise negotiated by Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins , which led to the establishment of the Irish Free State , excluding the six provinces in the northeast .
After his death in New York, he was flown to Ireland and buried on the west coast in the Cartron Church cemetery near Moyard near his country estate on the Renvyle Peninsula.
His works include the memories of Joyce, Yeats and other greats of the Irish literary renaissance in It Isn't This Time of Year at All! (1954).
Works
Original editions
- An Offering of Swans (1923)
- Wild Apples (1928)
- As I Was Going down Sackville Street (1937)
- Others to Adorn (1938)
- Tumbling in the Hay (1939)
- It Isn't This Time of Year at All! (1954)
- Collected Poems (1954)
- A Week End in the Middle of the Week (1958 posthumously)
Translations
- As I Was Going Down Sackville Street: A Fantasy in Fact , translated by Gerhard Edler (1996)
literature
- Ulick O'Connor: The Times I've Seen: Oliver St. John Gogarty. A Biography , Ivan Obolensky Inc., New York 1963
Web links
- Literature by and about Oliver St. John Gogarty in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gogarty, Oliver St. John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Likes Fhógartaigh, Oiliféir |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish sportsman, poet and author, doctor, pilot and member of parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1957 |
| Place of death | New York City |