Patrick McGowan (16 July 1926 – 3 October 1999) was a Fianna Fáil politician in Ireland.
A farmer and potato merchant, he was a senator from 1965 to 1981, and from 1987 to 2002, elected on the Agricultural Panel.
His son Patrick is a member of Donegal County Council for the Stranorlar electoral area, and was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2002 and 2007 Seanad elections, on the Agricultural Panel.
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“And no one knows what’s yet to come.
For Patrick Pearse had said
That in every generation
Must Ireland’s blood be shed.
From mountain to mountain ride the fierce horsemen.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)