2011 in Ireland - Deaths

Deaths

  • 2 January—Eoin Neeson, 83: historian, author, journalist, former director of the Government Information Bureau.
  • 9 January—Joss Lynam: mountaineer, founder member of Irish Mountaineering Club, following a short illness.
  • 10 January—Michaela McAreavey née Harte, 27: daughter of Tyrone Gaelic football manager Mickey Harte, strangled during her honeymoon in Mauritius.
  • 16 January—Louis McRedmond, 78: journalist and author, former editor of the Irish Independent, head of information at RTÉ.
  • 18 January—David Schulman, 80: former President of Mensa International, and charity volunteer.
  • 20 January—Gordon Holmes, former State Solicitor of Limerick, former chairman of the Parole Board and the former Garda Síochána Complaints Board.
  • 6 February—Gary Moore, 58: former Thin Lizzy guitarist. Heart attack while on holiday in Estepona, Spain.
  • 13 February—T. P. McKenna, 81; actor. Died in his sleep after a long illness.
  • 14 February—Sean Boru, 57, Actor and author.
  • 9 March—Seán Cronin, 91, Irish journalist and republican, Irish Republican Army chief of staff (1957–1958, 1959–1960), after long illness.
  • 14 March—Gerald Barry, 63; broadcast and print journalist, following a long illness.
  • 25 March—Thady Wyndham-Quin, 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 71, Aristocrat.
  • 15 April—Michael Hurley, 87, Irish Jesuit and ecumenical theologian, co-founder of the Irish School of Ecumenics.
  • 27 April—Harry Thuillier, 85, Olympic fencer and radio presenter.
  • 4 May—Joe Murray, 74; broadcaster and journalist, following a short illness.
  • 10 May—Patrick Galvin, 83; writer and poet, following a long illness.
  • 17 May—Tomás Mac Anna, 87; playwright, actor and director, following a short illness.
  • 17 May—Seán Dunphy, 73; showband singer, following a short illness.
  • 19 May—Garret FitzGerald, 85; former Taoiseach, following a short illness.
  • 20 May—Michael Bell, 74; former TD
  • 21 May—John Delaney, 42, businessman (Intrade).
  • 21 May—Pádraig Kennelly, 82, publisher, editor and journalist, founder of Kerry's Eye.
  • 24 May—Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany, 71, artist.
  • 3 June—Peter Murphy, 88, television presenter (RTE).
  • 6 June—Declan Costello, 84; former TD and judge
  • 7 June—Liam Kelly, 88, Republican and politician.
  • 10 June—Brian Lenihan, Jnr, 52; serving TD
  • 22 June—Myles Staunton, 75; former TD.
  • 19 July—Brendan Kehoe, 40, software developer and author, after a battle with acute myeloid leukemia.
  • 11 October—Peter McDermott, 93; former Meath Gaelic footballer and coach.
  • 12 October—Martin White, 102; former Kilkenny hurler and the oldest surviving All-Ireland medal winner.
  • 22 October—Cathal O'Shannon, 83; journalist and television presenter.
  • 9 November—Terry Willers, 76; cartoonist.
  • 7 December—Pearse Cahill, 95; pioneering aviator.
  • 25 December—
    • Thomas Finnegan, 86; bishop.
    • Seán French, 80, politician, Lord Mayor of Cork (1976) and TD (1967–1982).

Read more about this topic:  2011 In Ireland

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)

    “I sang of death but had I known
    The many deaths one must have died
    Before he came to meet his own!”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
    they waste their deaths on us.”
    —C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)