Oliver St John Gogarty - As I Was Going Down Sackville Street - Vintage Sphere 1968 PB ed

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Gogarty was a leading figure in the Irish literary renaissance of the early twentieth century whose legendary wit and skills as a raconteur outshone his considerable accomplishments as a writer and poet.Witty, eccentric and vastly entertaining, this is Gogarty's second and best-known autobiographical book. Written with passion and keen observation, it paints a vivid portrait of Dublin in the 1920s. It is peopled with an extraordinary cast of characters from the cultural and political life of the time who were Gogarty's personal friends: W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, George Moore, William Orpen, Lady Lavery, Augustus John, Arthur Griffith, Tim Healy and Michael Collins. 

This is the first Sphere books Pb edition, 1968  originally published 1937. A classic of Irish biography. Now, rather surprisingly, out of print. 

Light creasing to spine only - a very good copy, clean , little to no foxing or yellowing. 

Cover art by Chriistopher Bradbury, 334 pages