Gogarty, Oliver St John — Tumbling In The Hay
Constable & Company Ltd 1939 1st edition. Cloth, G+. xii+326pp, cloth rubbed & bumped, scattered foxing, ink inscription to the endpaper. The author's semi-autobiographical comic novel about medical students in Dublin at the start of the 20th century. The author notes that all the names are fictitious. Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty [ 1878 - 1957 ] Irish poet, doctor and conversationalist. He served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.