Pádraigín Bláthanna

Patricia Flowers Ghaillish: Pádraigín Bláthanna
Flowers in 2016
Taoiseach of Caldia
In office 21 June 1982 – 22 June 1992
Monarch	Ellen II
Deputy	Ruadhrí Mac Ceallach
Preceded by	Mícheál Ó Muilleoir
Succeeded by	Niamh Nic Uilliam
Leader of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition
In office 3 July 1977 – 21 June 1982
Preceded by	Mícheál Ó Muilleoir
Succeeded by	Fíona Nic Chonsaidín
Leader of the Liberty Party
In office 3 July 1977 – 13 June 1992
Preceded by	Dáibhí Mac Coinneach
Succeeded by	Bríd Nic Loingsigh
Minister of Industry and Petroleum
In office 19 June 1972 – 29 June 1977
Taoiseach	Dáibhí Mac Coinneach
List Teachta Comhthionól
In office 12 June 1982 – 1 July 1992
Teachta Comhthionól for Aerach North
In office 12 June 1972 – 12 June 1982
Personal details
Born	Patricia Grania Ní Loingsigh (1929-02-17) 17 February 1929 Spálgleann, Caldia
Political party	Liberty Party
Spouse	Clive Flowers (m. 1954; died 2005)
Children	4 children
Alma mater	University of Warminster

Patricia Grania Flowers (née Ní Loingsigh , born 17 February 1929) is a Caldish politician who served as the Taoiseach of Caldia from 1982 to 1992.

A corporate lawyer by profession, Flowers was first elected to the Comhthionól Náisiúnta as a Teachta Comhthionól for Aerach North in 1972. She gained a reputation for her "no-nonsense" approach to legislating and eloquence. Flowers served as Minister of Industry and Petroleum in the Second Mac Coinneach Government. She became leader of the Liberty Party and lead the party in opposition. While in opposition, she moved the party towards neoliberal economic policy.

In the 1982 general election, Flowers led her party to a landslide victory. Her free-market ethos saw the privatization of publicly-owned enterprises of and welfare services. Flowers also made substantial changes to the Caldish tax code, introducing a flat tax and special economic zones. Her economic reforms increased economic growth and foreign investment in Caldia. Despite strong economic growth, income inequality grew considerably.

Flowers' favored continued economic integration of the Euclean Community and agreed to adopt the euclo in 1983. However, she was opposed to increased political integration and focused Caldish foreign policy back towards neutrality, reversing the foreign policy of her predecessor and re-distancing the country from Swetania.

She was defeated in 1992 by Niamh Nic Uilliam and resigned as leader the following month. Flowers had a major impact on her party, shifting it ideologically and initiated a lasting realignment towards economic liberalism. Supporters of Flowers continued to dominate her party until the rise of Alexis Walker in 2007.