1967 in Ireland - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1 January - Séamus Burke, Sinn Féin TD, a founder-member of Cumann na nGaedheal and later Fine Gael (born 1893).
  • 28 January - Helena Moloney, fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and was first woman president of the Irish Trade Union Congress (born 1884).
  • 16 March - Thomas MacGreevy, poet and director of the National Gallery of Ireland (born 1893).
  • 22 April - Walter Macken, novelist, dramatist and actor (born 1915).
  • 4 August - Edmond Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick, peer and soldier (born 1888).
  • 14 September - Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh, businessman, politician and philanthropist, Chancellor University of Dublin (born 1874).
  • 30 November - Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist (born 1904).
  • 4 December - Michael Riordan, San Francisco Police Department Chief (born 1889).
  • 18 December - James Everett, Irish Labour Party TD, Cabinet Minister, famed for Battle of Baltinglass, 44 years service as a TD (born 1894).
  • 18 December - Florence O'Donoghue, historian and Irish Republican Army intelligence officer (born 1895).
  • 28 December - John Joe O'Reilly, Cumann na nGaedheal and Fine Gael TD (born 1881).

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