Office: | Senator |
Term Start: | 22 July 1954 |
Term End: | 22 May 1957 |
Constituency: | Nominated by the Taoiseach |
Birth Date: | 6 February 1913 |
Birth Place: | County Carlow, Ireland |
Death Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
Party: | Labour Party |
Spouse: | Nora Bergin[1] |
Children: | 5, including Emmet and Patrick |
Education: | Blackrock College |
Patrick Bergin (6 February 1913 – 16 April 1991) was an Irish politician and trade union official.[2]
He was a Labour Party member of Seanad Éireann from 1954 to 1957. He was nominated by the Taoiseach to the 8th Seanad in 1954.[3] He did not contest the 1957 Seanad election.[3] He stood unsuccessfully for Dáil Éireann as a Labour Party candidate for the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency at the 1948 general election.[4] His sons are the actors Emmet and Patrick Bergin.