Deaths
- 1 January - Michael Hilliard, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP (born 1903).
- 16 January - Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet, cricketer, squash player and art collector (born 1909).
- 5 February - George Crothers, cricketer (born 1909).
- 16 February - Vivion de Valera, barrister, managing director of The Irish Press, Fianna Fáil TD representing Dublin North–West (born 1910).
- 18 March - Patrick Smith, TD and Cabinet Minister (born 1901).
- 26 March - Sam Kydd, actor (born 1915).
- 15 June - Johnny Callanan, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1910).
- 7 July - Charles Hill, cricketer (born 1903).
- 24 August - Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, poet and writer (born 1919).
- 13 September - Mick Mackey, Limerick hurler and first recipient of the GAA All-Time All-Star Award (Hurling) (born 1912).
- 5 October - Séamus Ennis, Uilleann piper, singer and folk-song collector (born 1919).
- 18 November - Hilton Edwards, actor, director, co-founder of Gate Theatre (born 1903).
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)