Ирландиялық журналист, заңгер және тіл белсендесі Па́дра́йг О́ Си́оча́йн

the Irish author and language activist

Pádraig Augustine Ó Síocháin (P. A.) (1905–1995) was an Irish journalist, author, lawyer, Irish language activist and entrepreneur, born in Kanturk, County Cork, Ireland on 26 May 1905, the sixth child of D. D. Sheehan, MP for Mid Cork, of Kanturk, and Mary Pauline (née O'Connor) from Tralee, County Kerry.

He was educated at Kanturk National school, Rochestown College, Cork, and the University of London, receiving a diploma in journalism in 1923. He was one of the founder members of The Irish Press in 1931, for which he worked as political correspondent for some years. As member of the National Union of Journalists he served many years on the 'Newspaper Conciliation Board' as trade union representative. He was responsible for securing the agreement settling the hours and wages for journalists in the Irish national press.

During the 1930s he was editor of the Irish Aviation Magazine – the national air magazine of Ireland and the New Irish Magazine. Then from 1931 editor of the Garda Review, the official journal of the Garda Síochána, Ireland's national police service, which he edited for 41 years

During the war emergency (1939–1946) he served as Local Defence Force (LDF) area company leader and on the district HQ staff, as well as initiating and directing a parish council movement for the distribution of 10,000 tons of turf peat fuel and 750 tons of timber supplies from the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains to south Dublin homes during the war rationing period on a unique share system.

Beginning law studies in 1933, he qualified as barrister at law at King's Inns Dublin on 2 November 1936. He was called to the Inner Law Bar as Senior Counsel on 2 March 1948, practising extensively at the Four Courts, Dublin, specialising in trade union law, acting as legal adviser for 20 years to the Marine Port and General Worker's Union. and president of CARA, Society of Friends to promote the spoken use of the Irish language, and established an Irish language school in Dublin, pioneering in the later 1950s and early 1960s the big sales boom of Aran sweaters and cardigans to the United States and Canada, later adding a similar range of County Wexford Loch Garman handknits, expanding his markets further in the 1970s to include Europe, Australia, and, significantly, Japan. His sales brochures and book on the Aran Isles were illustrated by the Irish artist Seán Keating.

He was a member of Fianna Fáil from the early 1930s, having been County Dublin's Fianna Fáil director at the 1948 general election achieving one of their best returns, but abandoning them in 1952 due to their lack of interest in furthering the Irish language. at the 1965 general election for the Clare constituency, polling 2.362 1st preferences, or 6.9%.