Patrick Ryan

Biography

Patrick Ryan (26 June 1930 – 15 June 2025) was an Irish Catholic priest and Provisional IRA arms supplier. He was laicised by the Pallottine Order in 1973. In 1988, Ryan was accused of involvement in Provisional IRA activity, and was the subject of two unsuccessful extradition requests. Ryan denied the accusation in an interview with The Tipperary Star, saying that he had raised money both inside and outside Europe for victims on the nationalist side in the Troubles of Northern Ireland, but insisted that he had "never bought explosives for the IRA or anybody else", and had never been requested by the paramilitary group to do so. In an interview with the BBC broadcast in 2019, Ryan admitted that he was "one hundred per cent" involved in IRA bomb-making. In IRA circles he was known as "The Padre"; in the British press he was called "the Devil's Disciple" and the "Terror Priest".

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Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Credited work

79 releases · 23 albums · active 1972–2022

  • Performance · 46
  • Mastering · 18
  • Other credits · 15
  • Engineering · 11
  • Production · 1

Studios: Fellowship Hall Sound · University Of Tulsa Performing Arts Center · Trident Studios · Century Sound Studios

Frequent collaborators

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