An Offering of Swans

Oliver St. John Gogarty

An Offering of Swans

Dublin

Cuala Press

1923

Inscribed to Arthur Vincent

Oliver St. John Gogarty played a central role in the Literary Revival, though he is remembered less today as a writer, playwright, poet, doctor, and Irish senator than as an inescapable wit and conversationalist. James Joyce made him the model for Buck Mulligan in Ulysses. About Gogarty’s book of verse, An Offering of Swans, his longtime friend W. B. Yeats wrote, “there are careless lines now and again, traces of the old confused exuberance. He never stops long at his best, but how beautiful that best is, how noble, how joyous!”