Patrick Ryan (16 November 1898 – 21 January 1944), also known as Paddy Ryan Lacken, was an Irish nationalist and politician. He was born in

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. Ryan became active in the

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in Limerick and Tipperary, serving as Captain in the C Company of the 6th Battalion, Tipperary No. 1 Brigade, 3rd South Division of the

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. He took the

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side in the

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, and was arrested by Pro-Treaty forces in 1923. In his Civil War memoir ''The Gates Flew Open'', Peadar O'Donnell describes an incident where Ryan, under sentence of execution, was mistakenly transferred to Harepark Camp in the Curragh. When the order came to hand him over, he was kept hidden by his fellow prisoners. He was elected to

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as a

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(TD) for the

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constituency at the 1923 general election. He did not take his seat in the Dáil due to Sinn Féin's abstentionist policy. He did not contest the June 1927 general election. He emigrated to the US, where he became a businessman, still supporting Irish nationalist campaigns, he died in America on 21 January 1944. His family were involved in Irish nationalism and the GAA; his father was a local GAA official. His uncle was the priest and GAA figure Canon Michael Kennedy Ryan, and his brother Martin Ryan served as a

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TD for Tipperary from 1933 to 1943.

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's Lacken Park is named after him.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ryan, Patrick 1898 births 1944 deaths Early Sinn Féin TDs Members of the 4th Dáil Politicians from County Tipperary People of the Irish Civil War (Anti-Treaty side)