Oliver St. John Gogarty

Oliver Gogarty supported a so-called Secure House during the Irish War of Independence for freedom activists and fighters as well as for escaped or released convicts. Beside his activities as a writer he was a physician, sportsman, pilot and politician, and from 1922-36 served as a senator in the Irish Parliament.

Later in life his life served as the inspiration for the Roman character Buck Mulligan in the novel Ulysses, by his colleague James Joyce. Gogarty immigrated to New York in September 1939, where he died, aged 79.