2002 in Ireland - Deaths

Deaths

January to June
  • 14 January – Colm Hilliard, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1936).
  • 16 January – Jim Tunney, former Fianna Fáil TD, Minister of State and Lord Mayor of Dublin (born 1923).
  • 22 February – Paddy Ambrose, soccer player and coach (born 1930).
  • 22 February – Brendan O'Dowda, tenor singer (born 1925).
  • 27 February – Spike Milligan, comedian, poet and writer (born 1918).
  • 14 March – Kevin Danaher, folklorist and writer (born 1913).
  • 8 May – Sylvester Barrett, former Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP (born 1926).
  • 30 May – John B. Keane, playwright, novelist and essayist (born 1928).
July to December
  • 1 August – Brendan Menton Sr., soccer administrator and president of the Football Association of Ireland (born 1912).
  • 28 August – Jim McFadden, ice hockey player (born 1920).
  • 4 September – David Molony, lawyer, former Fine Gael TD and Seanad member (born 1950).
  • 20 September – Pat Saward, soccer player (born 1928).
  • 17 October – Derek Bell, harpist and composer (born 1935).
  • 25 October – Richard Harris, actor (born 1930).
  • 2 November – Brian Behan, writer and trade unionist (born 1926).
  • 2 December – Jim Mitchell, former Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister (born 1946).
  • 3 December – Glenn Quinn, actor (born 1970).
  • 18 December – Lucy Grealy, poet and memoirist (born 1963).
  • 24 December – Alan Clodd, book collector, dealer and publisher (born 1918).
Full date unknown
  • David Grene, classical scholar (born 1913).
  • Frances Kelly, painter (born 1908).
  • David Beers Quinn, historian (born 1909).
  • Owen Walsh, artist (born 1933).

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    “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.”
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