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As I Was Going Down Sackville Street
''As I Was Going Down Sackville Street: A Phantasy in Fact'' is a book by Oliver St. John Gogarty. Published in 1937, it was Gogarty's first extended prose work and was described by its author as "something new in form: neither a 'memoir' nor a novel". Its title is taken from an obscure Dublin ballad of the same name, which was "rescued from oblivion and obloquy" by Gogarty's erstwhile friend James Joyce, who recited it for Gogarty in 1904 after hearing it in inner city Dublin.
The book features many of Gogarty's Dublin acquaintances and well-known contemporaries (including W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith, Æ, and George Moore) as characters. Shortly after its publication, it became the subject of a highly publicised libel lawsuit.
==Literary style==
''As I Was Going Down Sackville Street'' is told in the first person from the perspective of Oliver Gogarty. Unlike a conventional memoir, however, the book deals little with events in Gogarty's personal or professional life, instead using his ''persona'' as a vehicle for encountering and describing the geography and chief inhabitants of 20th-century Dublin. In writing ''Sackville Street'', Gogarty sought to give "past and present the same value in time"; thus, while the first-person narrative is continuous and appears to occupy a compact chronological space, the events detailed span the years 1904–1932. Gogarty also rearranged events into (approximately) reverse chronological order, beginning with life in the Irish Free State and moving backwards through the Irish Civil War, the Irish War of Independence, and, finally, colonial Ireland. This structure was intended to loosely recall that of Dante's ''Divine Comedy'', with the Dublin of the mid-1920s–1930s standing for ''Inferno'', the Dublin of the 1910s–1920s for ''Purgatorio'', and turn-of-the-century Dublin for ''Paradiso''.〔Carens, p. 123〕
The tone of the book is predominately anecdotal and conversational; much of its action consists of lively accounts of dinner parties, luncheons, "at-homes", pub conversations, and chance meetings, allowing Gogarty to draw vivid portraits of his contemporaries by reproducing their speech patterns and characteristic social interactions. Gogarty also frequently embarks on humorous, rambling narrative monologues, pertaining to other characters, to the landscape, and to various salient issues of the time. While not strictly polemical, ''As I Was Going Down Sackville Street'' is notable for its political overtones, expressed in both Gogarty's monologues and in the speeches he places in the mouths of other characters. As a Catholic with strong intellectual and personal ties to the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, a founding member of Sinn Féin with a deep devotion to Arthur Griffith, and a Free State Senator who had suffered kidnapping and arson at the hands of IRA gunmen, Gogarty's political identity was complex and idiosyncratic, and in his book he gave frequent vent to his animosity towards Éamon de Valera and his disillusionment with Irish politics.
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