As I Was Going Down Sackville Street: A Phantasy in Fact

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Summary: A Real Live Character from James Joyce
Review: 'Oliver St. John Gogarty, who served as the prototype for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's Ulysses, was a surgeon, poet,playwright, novelist, passionaote opponent of the Sinn Feiners, and a wit of legendary fame. In these remarkable memoirs, which he labels "A Phantasy in Fact," Gogarty records a fascinating variety of people and events in t he literary and political life of Ireland during the disordered early nineteen twenties...'