Oliver St. John Gogarty

Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878-1957) was a physician (he performed an autopsy on Irish patriot Michael Collins), poet (his work was greatly admired by W.B. Yeats), supporter of Irish independence (his home was a safe house during Ireland's war against Britain), political figure (he played a role in the Irish Free State), writer (one of his books, from 1938, is I Follow St Patrick) and one-time friend of James Joyce (Gogarty was likely the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in Ulysses, Joyce's much-studied masterpiece).

Gogarty believed St. Patrick was born near St. David's, in the Pembrokeshire section of coastal Wales. (See John Benignus Lyons’ biography of Gogarty, at page 67).