When Asquith introduced his bill for Home Rule for Ireland in 1912, hesparked a decade of turbulence and violence for Ireland and her people.

Oliver St John Gogarty was called by Yeats one of the great lyric poets of the age, and his conversation was said to have the flavour of Wilde's. Gogarty was also a skilful surgeon, a senator, a playwright, a champion athlete and swimmer and author of two renowned books, As I Was Going Down Sackville Street and Tumbling in the Hay. This publication examines his life and work, and how he embodied the life of Dublin during one of its richest and most turbulent periods.