Deaths
- January to June
- 28 January – Tony Doyle, actor (born 1942).
- 1 February – Patrick Shanahan, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1908).
- 2 February – Francis Stuart, writer (born 1902).
- 25 February – Tom McEllistrim, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1926).
- 6 March – Jonathan Philbin Bowman, journalist and radio presenter (born 1969).
- 20 April – John Carthy, shot dead in controversial circumstances by An Garda Síochána after a twenty-five hour siege at his home (born 1972).
- 7 June – Mona Tyndall, missionary sister and development worker (born 1921).
- 10 June – Frank Patterson, tenor (born 1938).
- July to December
- 10 July – Denis O'Conor Don, hereditary chief of the O'Conor Don sept (born 1912).
- 14 August – John Boland, senior Fine Gael politician (born 1944).
- 18 October – James Gill, cricketer (born 1911).
- 8 November – Brian Boydell, composer, professor of music at Trinity College, Dublin (born 1917).
- 18 November – Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh, physicist responsible for the O'Raifeartaigh Theorem and the O'Raifeartaigh Model of supersymmetry breaking (born 1933).
- 26 November – Paddy Donegan, former Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister (born 1923).
- Full date unknown
- Paddy Barry, Cork hurler (born 1928).
- Paddy Flanagan, cyclist (born 1941).
- Alf Ringstead, soccer player (born 1927).
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)