Due to his influence on Joyce (he is also sometimes cited as an inspiration for "Dubliners" character Ignatius Gallaher and "Exiles" antagonist Robert Hand), Gogarty's name often comes up in Joyce scholarship, though Gogarty's own editors and biographers have complained that these references are frequently inaccurate, owing to Gogarty-related errata in Richard Ellmann's "James Joyce" and a tendency to conflate the real-life Gogarty with the fictional character of Buck Mulligan.