{"aliases":[],"awards":[],"biography_summary":"P\u00e1draig Faulkner (12 March 1918 \u2013 1 June 2012) was an Irish Fianna F\u00e1il politician who served as Ceann Comhairle of D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann from 1980 to 1981, Minister for Defence 1979 to 1980, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs and Minister for Tourism and Transport from 1977 to 1979, Minister for Education from 1969 to 1973, Minister for the Gaeltacht and Minister for Lands from 1968 to 1969 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Gaeltacht from 1965 to 1968. He served as a Teachta D\u00e1la (TD) for the Louth constituency from 1957 to 1987. Faulkner was born in Dundalk, County Louth, in 1918. He was educated at Dundalk CBS and St Patrick's College of Education in Drumcondra, Dublin, where he qualified as a national school teacher. Faulkner grew up in Dunleer in south Louth, where his father was a strong supporter of Fine Gael, while his mother supported the more Republican and working-class Fianna F\u00e1il. He favoured his mother's political outlook and joined Fianna F\u00e1il. Faulkner unsuccessfully contested the Louth by-election in 1954 but at the 1957 general election, he was elected to D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann winning a second seat for the party with Frank Aiken as they returned to Government. In 1965, Faulkner was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Gaeltacht by the Taoiseach, Se\u00e1n Lemass. He was appointed to the Cabinet by the new Taoiseach Jack Lynch in 1968 and served in every Fianna F\u00e1il-led government until 1980. During the Arms Crisis he was a Lynch loyalist.","birth_date":"1918-03-12","birth_place":"Dundalk","birth_place_coordinates":{"latitude":54.004444,"longitude":-6.400278},"birth_place_wikidata_id":"Q204956","birth_place_wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q204956","canonical_name":"P\u00e1draig Faulkner","canonical_url":"https://es.instaget.online/people/768e50988cae9119cfe12421","citizenships":["Ireland"],"death_date":"2012-06-01","description":"pol\u00edtico irland\u00e9s","external_ids":{"isni":{"id":"0000000040423498","url":"https://isni.org/isni/0000000040423498"},"loc":{"id":"n2006044719","url":"https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006044719.html"},"viaf":{"id":"24026925","url":"https://viaf.org/viaf/24026925/"}},"full_name":"P\u00e1draig Faulkner","height_cm":null,"names":{"aliases":["Padraig Faulkner"],"birth":[],"native":[],"official":[]},"native_name":null,"notable_works":[],"occupations":["politician"],"official_websites":[],"photo":{"author":"European Communities","license":"CC BY 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","source":"Wikimedia Commons","source_url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Padraig_Faulkner%2C_1980_(cropped).png","url":"https://instaget-public-commons.tor1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/public/commons/bc638913f133127600df71e47d6a01bb71bccca6a500595e4d9ff4cb9885c51f"},"profile_url":"https://es.instaget.online/people/768e50988cae9119cfe12421","provenance":{"catalog":"wikidata_wikipedia","fetched_at":"2026-08-29T06:58:00Z","social_archives_included":false,"source_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q446570"},"public_hash":"768e50988cae9119cfe12421","schema_version":"1.1","socials":{},"tags":[{"key":"category:politics-and-public-service","label":"Politics and public service","type":"category"},{"key":"occupation:politician","label":"politician","type":"occupation"},{"key":"country:dundalk","label":"Dundalk","type":"country"},{"key":"citizenship:ireland","label":"Ireland","type":"citizenship"}],"wikidata_id":"Q446570","wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q446570","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1draig_Faulkner"}