Life
1873-1964; [‘Paddy the Cope’]; b. Donegal, eldest of nine; ed.
Roshine School, entered hiring fair at Strabane at age of 10; laboured
in Scotland and England; joined co-operative in Pumperstown; bought farm
at Cleendra; attended meeting held by George Russell, and invited IAOS
to hold meeting in Cleendra; organised successive ventures on behalf of
the Templecrone Co-op. Soc., including hiring of steamer to circumvent
Black and Tan blockade; published autobiography, My Story: Paddy the
Cope, foreword by E. P. McDermott (1947). DIB DIH
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Works
My Story: Paddy the Cope, foreword by E. P. McDermott (Dungloe: Templecrone Coop. Soc. n.d. [1947]) [rev. edn. n.d.]
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Criticism
Art Byrne and Sean McMahon, ‘Patrick Gallagher’, in Great
Northerners (Dublin: Poolbeg 1991); Lawrence Scanlon, The Story
He Left Behind Him, Paddy the Cope (Lanham MD: America UP; UK: Eurospan
1993), 244pp.
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