Born at 5 Rutland (now Parnell) Square in Dublin, Gogarty was a medical student (at Trinity College Dublin) and joker who wrote humorous verse and stories and belonged to the latter period of the Irish Literary Revival.
Born at 5 Rutland (now Parnell Square) in Dublin, Gogarty attended Clongowes Wood College and University College Dublin. He wrote humorous verse and stories and belonged to the latter period of the Irish Literary Revival.