The Resume

(August 17, 1878-September 22, 1957)
Born in Dublin, Ireland
Poet, author, surgeon, and politician
Founding member of Sinn Fein (1905)
Senator for the Irish Free State (1921-30)
Poetry collections include 'The Ship and Other Poems' (1918), 'An Offering of Swans' (1924), 'Wild Apples' (1929), 'Elbow Room' (1939), and 'Unselected Poems' (1954)
Prose works include 'As I Was Going Down Sackville Street' (1937), 'I Follow St. Patrick' (1938), 'Going Native' (1940), 'Mourning Became Mrs. Spendlove' (1948), and 'Rolling Down the Lea' (1949)

Why he might be annoying:

He switched schools after failing eight of ten exams at the Royal University of Ireland (1898(.
When performing operations in a surgical theater, he would throw the tonsils he had removed from a patient into the audience.
Art dealer Harry Sinclair sued for libel over his portrayal in 'As I Was Going Down Sackville Street' and won £900 in damages.
At the beginning of World War II, he settled in New York City and, outside of an occasional holiday visit, never again saw Ireland -- or his wife and children.
He said he questioned both the sanity and the literacy of anyone who considered 'Ulysses' one of the great novels.

Why he might not be annoying:

He rescued four people from drowning between 1898 and 1901.
At Trinity College, he won three successive Vice Chancellor Prizes for verse (1901-03).
He provided free surgery for the poor.
During the Irish Civil War, he was kidnapped by the IRA, but escaped by diving into the River Liffey and swimming to the opposite shore (June, 1923).
His home was looted and burnt down by IRA militants.
He declared his opposition to a censorship bill with the statement, 'I think it is high time the men of this country find some other way of loving God than by hating women.' (1929)
He was the inspiration for the character Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's 'Ulysses.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 20th Century Poets
• Born in Dublin, Ireland
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 82]
• I Attended Oxford
• I Attended Trinity College [Dublin, Ireland]
• I Died in 1957 (Ranked: 79)
• I Drive a Rolls-Royce
• I Named My Kid After Myself
• I Rescued Someone From Drowning
• I Sought Political Office
• I was Kidnapped
• Look at Me, My Picture Is Art
• My House Burned Down
• Physicians Turned Authors
• Pilots
• Poets
• Profiles 51501-51750 (Ranked: 51531)
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 19570922)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 16 Votes: 68.75% Annoying