Bodkin, Matthias: Patsey The Omadaun. v1. 26 Apr 2016
 

Matthias McDonnell Bodkin[1] (8 October 1850 – 7 June 1933) was an Irish nationalist politician and MP. in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Anti-Parnellite representative for North Roscommon, 1892–95, a noted author, journalist and newspaper editor, and barrister, King's Counsel (K.C.) and County Court Judge for County Clare, 1907–24.

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As a small boy in the small town of Killclogher in the West of Ireland, I first heard the exploits of ‘Patsey the Omadaun. There was a tailor’s shop in the town, where three men sat cross-legged on a table and stitched and talked the busy hours away.