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Studied Medicine In Dublin: QUAIN, kwan, Jones, British anatomist: b. Ratheahy, County Cork, Ireland, November 1796; d. London, England, Jan. 31, 1865. He studied medicine in Dublin and in Paris, in which latter city he translated and edited Maurice Martinet's Manual of Pathology (1826; 4th ed., 1935). During 1831-1835 he was professor of general anatomy in University College, London. His other publications include Elements of Descriptive and Practical Anatomy (1828; 10th ed., 1890) and (with Erasmus Wilson) a series of Anatomical Plates, 2 vols. (1836-1842).
GOGARTY, go'gsr-te, Oliver St. John (1878-1957), Irish author and physician, who was the prototype of the character Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's Ulysses. Born in Dublin on Aug. 17, 1878, Gogarty studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Oxford and received his medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in 1907. From 1922 to 1936 he was a senator in the parliament of the Irish Free State. He settled in the United States in 1939 and died in New York City on Sept. 22, 1957.
First recorded in AD 291, Dublin was converted to Christianity by St Patrick c. AD 450. The Anglo-Normans ousted the Danes in 1171.
The General Post Office, Dublin was the scene of fierce fighting in May 1916 when Padraig Pearse proclaimed the Irish Republic from its steps.
The population of Dublin was 502,749 (1986 census); the vast majority were Roman Catholic but there were small Anglican, Presbyterian and Jewish communities. |
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