title: Oliver St John Gogarty, MD (1878-1957): quintessential Irish Literary Renaissance figure.
abstract: Oliver St John Gogarty (1878-1957) was a quintessential figure of the Irish literary renaissance. He was a successful surgeon, accomplished lyric poet, a man of letters, a senator in the first Irish Free State and a celebrated wit. While pursuing a successful career in ear, nose, and throat (ENT) surgery, Gogarty served a brief, nearly lethal term in politics. He devoted the last several years of his life to a remarkably versatile literary career, the spectrum of his creativity including elegant lyric poetry, autobiographies, biographies, essays, novels and parodies.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Carter
mesh_terms: D005197:Famous Persons; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland; D008093:Literature, Modern / Q000266:history*; D010036:Otolaryngology / Q000266:history*; D011037:Poetry as Topic / Q000266:history