P. J. Brady

Patrick Joseph Brady (1868 – 20 May 1943) was an Irish nationalist MP for Dublin St Stephen's Green constituency from 1910 to 1918, during the closing years of the Irish Parliamentary Party's dominance of Irish politics. Later, he was a Senator of the Irish Free State from 1927 to 1928. He was one of the few parliamentarians who served in both the House of Commons and in the Oireachtas.

The eldest son of James Brady, he was born at Blackrock, Dublin and educated at St Vincent's College, Castleknock and at University College Dublin. He was admitted a solicitor in 1893 and became senior partner, then head of the firm of Brady & Hayden. He built up an extensive legal practice and became a member of the Council, and later President, of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland. He was also a director of the Hibernian Bank and of the Great Southern Railways, and an active social welfare worker and member of the Catholic Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. In 1900 he married Evelyn Parminter, youngest daughter of John Douglas Parminter, a Paymaster in the Royal Navy. She died in 1931. They had no children.

Among those who attended his funeral at the Church of the Assumption, Booterstown, Dublin in May 1943 was his former opponent Éamon de Valera, by that time Taoiseach.