{"product_id":"2026200011466-secondhand-as-i-was-going-down-sackville-street","title":"As I Was Going Down Sackville Street","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDublin 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.\n\nGogarty — 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130846159067,"sku":"2026200011466-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a1cd2eba-6742-497e-b89b-c0b81f313f67.png?v=1786591144","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200011466-secondhand-as-i-was-going-down-sackville-street","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}