Patrick O'Keeffe (Irish: Pádraig Ó Caoimh; 3 July 1881 – 21 September 1973) was an Irish politician, revolutionary and public servant.
O'Keeffe was born in the townland of Nohovaldaly, Cullen, County Cork, the son of Daniel John O'Keeffe and Bridget Sullivan.
[1][2] He joined the Sinn Féin party led by Arthur Griffith, where he was at one time honorary secretary.
[4] He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork Mid, North, South, South East and West constituency at the 1921 elections.
[1] In his vivid civil war memoir, The Gates Flew Open, Peadar O'Donnell devotes a chapter to how O'Keeffe was relentlessly mocked by the prisoners who called him 'Paudeen.