tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249798928755398547.post6863960351074396791..comments2024-03-01T10:49:12.079-05:00Comments on 'Hear The Boat Sing': Tim Koch: “If” (with apologies)HTBS editor Göran R Buckhornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09996970312143298372noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249798928755398547.post-90175824570272271382012-06-15T12:34:47.718-04:002012-06-15T12:34:47.718-04:00I was checking on Dermot Gogarty as I was includin...I was checking on Dermot Gogarty as I was including a poem by his father Oliver St. John Gogarty who was a renowned Irish wit and was the basis of the character Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's Ulysses.<br /><br />Dermot was an architect who also wrote poetry and I have just blogged that he wrote a poem to my sister in the 60s to A convent Girl in Canada where he went to live before returning to England and settled in Derbyshire near to where his good friend Eamonn Goggin then lived. <br /><br />Incidentally, it is 'St. John' that is pronounced 'Cingin' not his surname Gogarty! I was blogging about Gogarty today becaue it is the eve of Bloomsday June 16th which is celebrated by Joyceans all over the world!<br /><br />Jeanne Rathbone aka Sheela-na-GigJeanne Rathbonenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249798928755398547.post-16427389549281663122012-04-03T13:53:55.000-04:002012-04-03T13:53:55.000-04:00Great information, Philip, thank you for sharing!Great information, Philip, thank you for sharing!HTBS editor Göran R Buckhornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09996970312143298372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249798928755398547.post-46795775857455437862012-04-03T09:04:45.200-04:002012-04-03T09:04:45.200-04:00I was a memebr of Dublin University Boat Club in t...I was a memebr of Dublin University Boat Club in the 1980s and recall letters being received from Dermot who was in his mid to late 70s at the time. He always was enquiring about the state of rowing in Trinity at the time and was eager for news. His letters were witty and replied to by the Captain. He signed his letters Tom G Derrygoat, anagram of Dermot Gogarty.<br /><br />Philip BrowneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249798928755398547.post-4028693884157597632012-03-12T13:09:49.863-04:002012-03-12T13:09:49.863-04:00Dear Greg, of course, this makes perfectly sense. ...Dear Greg, of course, this makes perfectly sense. I looked up Oliver, Dermot's father, but did not go further (there seems to have been a lot of Gogarty). Thank you also for the pronunciation of Gogarty - I would never have guessed that it was going to be pronounced that way!HTBS editor Göran R Buckhornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09996970312143298372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4249798928755398547.post-39376937518950265922012-03-12T12:48:09.262-04:002012-03-12T12:48:09.262-04:00I think that is a misprint in 'Boating'. I...I think that is a misprint in 'Boating'. It was probably penned by Dermot St. John Gogarty [pronounced 'Cingin']. Born in 1908, he was the second son of Oliver St. John Gogarty, the Irish poet, author & Senator [Wikipedia has a good entry on him].<br /><br />Dermot was a well known architect who went to Pembroke College, Cambridge and was a rowing coach at University College, Dublin. He coached their maiden eight in 1933 to wins at Bann and Derry. <br /><br />It would be nice to have more information on his rowing connections at Pembroke and UCD.Greg Denieffehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02407285452952336672noreply@blogger.com