Background
He was born in Newport, County Tipperary.
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Patrick Ryan
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Pat Ryan became active in the Irish War of Independence in Limerick and Tipperary, serving as Captain in the C Company of the 6th Battalion, Tipperary Number. 1 Brigade, 3rd South Division of the Ireland Republican Army. He took the Anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War, 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 Dáil Éireann as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (Territorial Decoration) for the Tipperary 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 United States where be became a businessman, still supporting Irish nationalist campaigns, he died in America on 21 January 1944.
Newport Gaelic Athletic Association"s Lacken Park is named after him.
Politics
His family were heavily involved in Irish nationalism and the Gaelic Athletic Association, his father was a local Gaelic Athletic Association official
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