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unusual facts about Oliver St. John Gogarty


Nelson's Pillar

James Joyce gave Nelson and his Pillar a supporting role in Ulysses, and Oliver St John Gogarty described it as the grandest thing we have in Dublin in As I Was Going Down Sackville Street.


Dermot St. John Gogarty

Dermot St. John Gogarty, RIAI, RIBA, (born 1908) was a well-known Irish architect of Dublin and Galway active throughout mid-twentieth-century Ireland.


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Ely Place, Dublin

The academy's old headquarters, a Victorian house which had once been the property of Oliver St. John Gogarty was demolished and it was expected that the modern building, designed by Raymond McGrath, formerly Principal Architect with the OPW, would be ready for its first exhibition in 1975.