RT Journal
A1 Decker MD
T1 GOgarty and joyce
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1979
FD September 14
VO 242
IS 11
SP 1139
OP 1139
DO 10.1001/jama.1979.03300110013009
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1979.03300110013009
AB To the Editor.— 
    As one who reluctantly set aside the study of James Joyce for that of medicine, I was delighted to encounter the recent article by J. B. Lyons, MD (241:1409, 1979), discussing his appreciation of Oliver St John Gogarty. However, I cannot accept the thesis of John P. Callan, MD, in the appended commentary, that the conflict between Joyce and Gogarty stemmed from social and familial rivalry; rather, these rivalries grew out of the professional and personal hostility between the two.The developing professional rivalry between the two young men competing for the favors and attentions of the Dublin literary aristocracy took a personal turn when Gogarty expelled Joyce from the Martello Tower lodgings they had shared, and which Joyce had originally secured; thus, Gogarty was (literal) Usurper, a role that Joyce believed Gogarty played in a literary as well as philosophical sense. This simmering hostility, interspersed with