As I Was Going Down Sackville Street
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Dublin in the 1920s was a city of contradictions — scarred by revolution, yet alive with wit, poetry, and intellectual fire — and no one captured this world more vividly than Oliver St. John Gogarty in As I Was Going Down Sackville Street. This lilting autobiographical account chronicles the author's own life as a surgeon, senator, and celebrated wit moving through the drawing rooms, pubs, and cobbled streets of a newly independent Ireland, rubbing shoulders with W.B. Yeats, Arthur Griffith, and the brightest and most turbulent minds of the Irish Literary Revival. Written in a freewheeling, anecdotal style that blurs the line between memoir and fiction, it presents a Dublin that crackles with conversation, poetry recited from memory, and the ever-present shadow of political upheaval. Gogarty — the real-life inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's Ulysses — writes with the bravado of a man who lived at the very centre of history, and his prose illustrates a rare gift for transforming gossip and memory into literature. The narrative brims with sharp portraits of contemporaries, irreverent humour, and a deep, elegiac love for a city in the midst of profound transformation. A landmark of Irish autobiographical writing, this work remains an indispensable record of a lost world — one that leaves the reader wondering where legend ends and truth begins.
Author: Oliver St John Gogarty
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Dublin in the 1920s was a city of contradictions — scarred by revolution, yet alive with wit, poetry, and intellectual fire — and no one captured this world more vividly than Oliver St. John Gogarty in As I Was Going Down Sackville Street. This lilting autobiographical account chronicles the author's own life as a surgeon, senator, and celebrated wit moving through the drawing rooms, pubs, and cobbled streets of a newly independent Ireland, rubbing shoulders with W.B. Yeats, Arthur Griffith, and the brightest and most turbulent minds of the Irish Literary Revival. Written in a freewheeling, anecdotal style that blurs the line between memoir and fiction, it presents a Dublin that crackles with conversation, poetry recited from memory, and the ever-present shadow of political upheaval. Gogarty — the real-life inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's Ulysses — writes with the bravado of a man who lived at the very centre of history, and his prose illustrates a rare gift for transforming gossip and memory into literature. The narrative brims with sharp portraits of contemporaries, irreverent humour, and a deep, elegiac love for a city in the midst of profound transformation. A landmark of Irish autobiographical writing, this work remains an indispensable record of a lost world — one that leaves the reader wondering where legend ends and truth begins.