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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Oliver St. John Gogarty, R. Tait McKenzie, Johan van Hell, Harald Genzmer, Erling Brene, Walter Battiss, Jan Parandowski, Edwin Grienauer, Alfred Ost, Ilmari Niemelainen, Richard Konwiarz, Alex Diggelmann, Edwin Scharff, Stig Blomberg, Gabriele Bianchi, Eva Foldes, Julien Medecin, Renee Sintenis, Rudolph Simonsen, Max Laeuger, Jakub Obrovsky, Walther Klemm, Jacques Lambert, Joachim Karsch, W adys aw Skoczylas, Carel Scharten, Margo Scharten-Antink, Jaroslav K i ka, Charles Gonnet, Jean Rene Gauguin, Hans Stoiber, Gerhard Westermann, Nils Olsson, Josue Dupon, Max Feldbauer, Hermann Stiegholzer, Theo Nussbaum, Sergio Lauricella, Stanis aw Ostoja-Chrostowski, Sujaku Suzuki, Gilbert Prouteau, Herbert Kastinger, Andre Verbeke, Alphons De Cuyper, Claude-Leon Mascaux, Ryuji Fujita, Johannes Weltzer. Excerpt: Oliver Joseph St John Gogarty (August 17, 1878 - September 22, 1957) was an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist, who served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses. Gogarty was born August 17, 1878 in Rutland Square, Dublin, the eldest child of Henry Gogarty, a well-to-do Dublin physician, and Margaret Gogarty (nee Oliver), the daughter of a Galway mill owner. Three siblings (Henry, Mary, and Richard) were born later. Gogarty's father, himself the son of a medical doctor, had been educated at Trinity College and owned two fashionable homes in Dublin, which set the Gogartys apart from other Irish Catholic families at that time and allowed them access to the same social circles as the Protestant Ascendancy. In 1887 Gogarty's father died of a burst appendix, and Gogarty was sent to Mungret College, a boarding school near Limerick. He was unhappy in his new school, and the following year he transferred to Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, E...
