Deaths
- 21 January - Patrick Mulligan, Bishop of Clogher 1970-1979 (born 1912).
- 17 February - Brendan Corish, Irish Labour Party TD and former leader, Cabinet Minister and Tánaiste (born 1918).
- 28 February - John O'Sullivan, Fine Gael TD and Senator (born 1901).
- 6 April - Peter Doherty, soccer player (born 1913).
- 8 May - Tomás Ó Fiaich, Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland 1978-1990 (born 1923).
- 12 May - John 'Tull' Dunne, Gaelic footballer, coach and administrator (born 1911).
- 11 June - Seosamh Mac Grianna, writer (born 1900).
- 12 June - Terence O'Neill, Fourth Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (born 1914).
- 3 August - Thomas Dunne, Fine Gael TD and MEP (born 1926).
- 19 October - Jerry Cronin, Fianna Fáil TD Cabinet Minister and MEP (born 1925).
- 18 November - Fred Daly, golfer (born 1911).
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)