Patrick Frederick Gallaher (1800 – 1863) was an Irish ventriloquist who was active in Ireland throughout the Victorian era.
[1][2][3] Gallagher was born in Chapleizod, Dublin in 1800 and was performing in theatres on Grafton Street by 1825.
[4] Following his death in 1863, he was buried at Glasnevin Cemetery.
[5] His son John Blake Gallaher was a political newspaper editor.
John's daughter Fannie was an author, and his son Fred Gallaher, a journalist for the Freeman's Journal was referred to in A Little Cloud by James Joyce.