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Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878–1957)

Autor de As I Was Going Down Sackville Street

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Créditos de la imagen: Scan of back cover of Penguin No.970 (pub.1954)

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Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1878-08-17
Fecha de fallecimiento
1957-09-22
Lugar de sepultura
Ballinakill Graveyard Moyard, County Galway, Ireland
Género
male
Nacionalidad
Ireland
Lugar de nacimiento
Dublin, Ireland
Lugar de fallecimiento
New York, New York, USA
Lugares de residencia
Dublin, Ireland (birth)
New York, New York, USA (death)
Educación
Royal University (now University College ∙ Dublin)
University College Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin
Ocupaciones
surgeon
memoirist
lecturer
Senator (Irish Free State)
Relaciones
Joyce, James (fellow student)
Premios y honores
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1954)
Biografía breve
Gogarty was born in Dublin and educated at the Royal University, and Trinity College, Dublin, later becoming a successful Dublin surgeon. A wit and a poet, Gogarty wrote several books. He took an active interest in Irish politics, being a senator of the Irish Free State 1922–36.

As I was Going Down Sackville Street was the cause of a successful libel action against him. In 1939 Gogarty moved permanently to the USA, where he wrote and lectured. He died in New York.

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Truth in reviewing: I didn't finish this book, largely because I was growing increasingly disinterested in it. One had the sensation of a person telling a very long-winded joke, which one can't get because of the allusions contained within it. Unless you're very well versed in 1920s and 1930s Irish politics, I don't think you're going to get more than a fraction of the allusions and references in the book. Be forewarned.
 
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EricCostello | otra reseña | Apr 10, 2019 |
This is a memoir of the Irish Rennaissance, from the Irish side. Highly fanciful, but extremely readable Gogarty feels that his friends and contemporaries were worthy of the record. I would agree that the people revealed here were worth the effort. Perhaps led away by the lure of a punch line, there is much good material here. Do cross check before using this work as a footnoted source, however.
 
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DinadansFriend | Mar 20, 2015 |
A fantasy-Memoir of the Irish flowering of the Early twentieth Century, by a man who was not the least of the blooms. Though he lost the libel suit arising from material in this book, Gogarty portrays many of the period's luminaries sympathetically. He said, "the names are real, the characters fictitious!" It runs from 1932 to 1904, in that order, and is interesting, where it's not riveting.
½
 
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