Deaths
- 1 January - Donagh MacDonagh, writer and judge (born 1912).
- 8 February - Louise McIlroy, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the London School of Medicine for Women (born 1874).
- 10 March - Donogh O'Malley, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister (born 1921).
- 24 March - Gladys Wynne, artist (born 1876).
- 11 September - Denis McCullough, Irish Volunteers and elected to the 4th Dáil Éireann (born 1883).
- 31 October - William X. O'Brien, politician and trade unionist (born 1881).
- 2 November - Don Davern, Fianna Fáil TD for Tipperary South from 1965 until his death (born 1935).
- 7 November - Margaret Mary Pearse, Fianna Fáil TD and Seanad Éireann member, sister of Patrick Pearse (born 1878).
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)