title: Oliver St John Gogarty.
abstract: Oliver St John Gogarty--Otolaryngologist to fashionable Edwardian Dublin--was a distinguished poet and a Senator in the fledgling Irish Free State after its establishment in 1922. He numbered amongst his acquaintances the poet William Butler Yeats, the novelist James Joyce and a host of political and literary persona who helped to shape modern Ireland. He was satirised as 'stately plump Buck Mulligan' in Joyce's novel Ulysses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK.
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Clarke
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007494:Ireland; D008093:Literature, Modern / Q000266:history*; D010036:Otolaryngology / Q000266:history*; D011037:Poetry as Topic / Q000266:history*; D011057:Politics