vermiculite
vermiculite Member of the 2:1
phyllosilicates (sheet silicates) with composition (Mg,Ca)(Mg,Fe
2+)
5(Al,Fe
3+)[(Si,Al)
8O
20](OH)
4.
8H
2O and closely related to the
smectite clay minerals; sp. gr. about 2.3;
hardness about 1.5;
monoclinic; yellow or brown; pearly
lustre; crystals flat and
platy;
cleavage perfect basal {001}; occurs as an
alteration product of
biotite, from the
hydrothermal alteration of biotite and
phlogopite, and from the alteration of
ultrabasic rocks; expands greatly on heating. It is used extensively for insulation and as a lubricant. See also
CLAY MINERALS.
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Beyond the double dactyls.(The Poems and Plays of Oliver St. John Gogarty )(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Irish Literary Supplement; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; OLIVER ST JOHN GOGARTY The Poems & Plays of Oliver St John Gogarty Collected, Edited and Introduced...ADMITTED in 1933 in his Foreword to Oliver St John Gogarty's Selected Poems, he first encountered...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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Who's looting the National Gallery? Masterpieces by Orpen and Henry head for London.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 4/5/2009; 700+ words
; ...s 1913 portrait of poet Oliver St John Gogarty's son, Noll.. The gallery...the former Galway home of Oliver St John Gogarty. Mr Williams was unavailable...William Orpen's portrait of Oliver St John Gogarty's son, Noll MASTERPIECE...
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New art attack on National Gallery; (except this time, classics are coming the walls).(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 4/5/2009; 700+ words
; ...Orpen's 1913 portrait of poet Oliver St John Gogarty's son, Noll. The gallery...Leading barrister and poet John O'Donnell, a former colleague...William Orpen's portrait of Oliver St John Gogarty's son, Noll MASTERPIECE...
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Lukas, who trains horses for top coaches, looks to run three horses in Derby.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 4/24/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...almost $200,000 with his horse, Gogarty, who is with Lukas' Santa Anita...reporters, discovered after he bought Gogarty that the horse is named for an...What Knight may not know is that Oliver St. John Gogarty (1887-1957), an Irish novelist...
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A celebration of the poet as a young man
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 10/26/2005; 700+ words
; ...for libel by the Dubliner writer Oliver St John Gogarty.Kavanagh, as an aspiring poet, had called at Gogarty's house, and, recalling the visit, had written: "I mistook Gogarty's white robed maid for his wife...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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BOOZE BLUES; Drinkers cry in their beer over EUR5 pints.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 10/12/2002; 700+ words
; ...find the priciest pint. Top of the list was the Oliver St John Gogarty and Fitzsimon's in Temple Bar and Cafe en Seine...Gin and Tonic............EUR5.90 OLIVER ST JOHN GOGARTY Pint of Carlsberg....EUR4.90 Pint of Guinness...
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Welcome home to 'dear, dirty Dublin'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/16/2003; 700+ words
; ...circling sea gulls. Oliver St.John Gogarty once shared digs here...costume impersonates Gogarty with recitations from...Joycean pub crawl is John Mulligan's on Poolbeg...authors Edmund Burke and Oliver Goldsmith, who did most...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Dublin toasts the writers it once banished
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 3/2/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...circling sea gulls. Oliver St. John Gogarty once shared digs here...costume impersonates Gogarty with recitations from...Joycean pub crawl is John Mulligan's on Poolbeg...authors Edmund Burke and Oliver Goldsmith, who did most...
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Dubliners forever toasting the Irish writers they once banished
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 1/30/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...circling sea gulls. Oliver St. John Gogarty once shared digs here...costume impersonates Gogarty with recitations from...Joycean pub crawl is John Mulligan's on Poolbeg...authors Edmund Burke and Oliver Goldsmith, who did most...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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A ROOM FOR ALL SEASONS.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 1/20/2007; 700+ words
; Byline: PAUL GOGARTY JANUARY Soho Grand, Soho, New York...Vivien Leigh swopped vows here and John and Jackie Kennedy honeymooned here...Renvyle was thus named by poet Oliver St John Gogarty (on whom James Joyce modelled Buck...
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Oliver St. John Gogarty
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Oliver St. John Gogarty , 1878-1957, Irish author. A physician, he also served (1922-36) in the parliament of the Irish Free State. Gogarty is perhaps best known as the model for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce...
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Gogarty, Oliver Joseph St John
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Gogarty, Oliver Joseph St John (1878–1957), poet and surgeon, published several novels and volumes of verse, but is better remembered as the original of ‘stately, plump Buck Mulligan’ in Ulysses .
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