Patrick Gallaher (ventriloquist)

Patrick Frederick Gallaher (1800 – 1863) was an Irish ventriloquist who was active in Ireland throughout the Victorian era.¹²³

Gallagher was born in Chapleizod, Dublin in 1800 and was performing in theatres on Grafton Street by 1825.⁴ Following his death in 1863, he was buried at Glasnevin Cemetery.⁵

His son John Blake Gallaher was a political newspaper editor. John's daughter Fannie was an author, and his son Fred Gallaher, a journalist for the Freeman's Journal was referred to in A Little Cloud by James Joyce. ⁶

References

Holton, Karina (2024-10-01). "Two exponents of observational comedy and the stage Irishman in nineteenth-century Irish theatre: Denis Leonard and Patrick Frederick Gallaher". Irish Studies Review. 32 (4): 577–602. doi:10.1080/09670882.2024.2413437. ISSN 0967-0882.
Bradley, Thomas Earnshaw (1852). The Lamp [ed. by T.E. Bradley].
Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art. E. Littell. 1831.
"JJON - Grandfather". www.jjon.org. Retrieved 2025-02-19.
O'Duffy, Richard J. (1915). Historic Graves in Glasnevin Cemetery. J. Duffy and Company, limited.
"JJON - John Blake Gallaher". www.jjon.org. Retrieved 2025-02-19.

[1] Holton, Karina (2024-10-01). "Two exponents of observational comedy and the stage Irishman in nineteenth-century Irish theatre: Denis Leonard and Patrick Frederick Gallaher". Irish Studies Review. 32 (4): 577–602. doi:10.1080/09670882.2024.2413437. ISSN 0967-0882.

[2] Bradley, Thomas Earnshaw (1852). The Lamp [ed. by T.E. Bradley].

[3] Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art. E. Littell. 1831.

[4] "JJON - Grandfather". www.jjon.org. Retrieved 2025-02-19.

[5] O'Duffy, Richard J. (1915). Historic Graves in Glasnevin Cemetery. J. Duffy and Company, limited.

[6] "JJON - John Blake Gallaher". www.jjon.org. Retrieved 2025-02-19.

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