Patrick Egan (activist)

He had been an industrious learner before going into business, and took evening classes from various instructors, particularly a brilliant young Episcopal minister named Porte.

At the end of 1880, he, with twelve others, including Parnell, Dillon, Bigger, Sexton, Sullivan, Sheridan, and Matt Harris, were singled out by the government for prosecution for alleged conspiracy.

As United States Ambassador to Chile from 1889 to 1893, he represented the US when relations became strained during the revolt against President José Manuel Balmaceda.

The general Chilean attitude was probably best expressed by Eduardo Phillips, chief of the Diplomatic Section of the Ministry of Foreign Relations who, in a letter to a newspaper, described Egan as a person "utterly lacking in all elements of culture and courtesy, and ever-ready to descend to the level of invective and calumny".

[7] In an interview with the New York Times, following the executions of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, he declared: Egan was the father of fourteen children, nine of whom survived childhood.

Making his day's stations, the dingy printing case, his three taverns, the Montmartre lair, rue de la Goutte d'Or, damascened with flyblown faces of the gone."