Oliver St. John Gogarty

Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty, born in Rutland Square, Dublin, Ireland, was an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, amateur aviator, politician, and well-known conversationalist. He served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel *Ulysses*. In 1898 he went to the medical school at Trinity College in Dublin, where a serious interest in poetry and literature also began to manifest itself. Between 1901 and 1903, he won three successive Vice-Chancellor's prizes for verse. In 1900 he made the …