MS Verse in hand of Oliver St John Gogarty

Oliver St John Gogarty resided at the Martello Tower up to the 1920s, and but for Ulysses the building might have been his monument. Witty and flamboyant, he was a talented poet and renowned raconteur with many friends and enemies. A close companion of Yeats and Arthur Griffith, he left Ireland in 1939 and died in New York in 1957. This verse, enclosed in a letter to a friend, was presented to the museum by Christine and Tim O’Neill.