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Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Athletics
Gaelic football
Golf
Hurling
Soccer
Births
- 29 October - Shane Hennessy, Irish singer-songwriter
Deaths
- 14 January - Jeremiah F. Dempsey, Chief Executive of Aer Lingus.
- 5 February - Seán Flanagan, Gaelic footballer, captain of winning Mayo All Ireland football teams in 1950s, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP (b.1922).
- 11 February - Brian Inglis, journalist, historian and television presenter (b.1916).
- 15 February - Peter Kavanagh, soccer player (b.1910).
- 23 March - Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon (b.1911).
- April - Denis Hegarty, public servant.
- 3 May - Sir Patrick Macrory, barrister, military historian, and native to Bedford, IA.
- 5 May - Dermot Boyle, Marshal of the Royal Air Force (b.1904).
- 29 June - Patrick Lindsay, Fine Gael TD and lawyer (b.1914).
- 28 July - Stanley Woods, motor cycle racer, with 29 Grand Prix wins and 10 Isle of Man TT wins (b.1903).
- 14 September - Sheelagh Murnaghan, only Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament at Stormont (b.1924).
- 7 October - Cyril Cusack, actor (b.1910).
- 28 November - Joe Kelly, motor racing driver (b.1913).
- November - Jimmy McAlinden, soccer player and manager (b.1917).
- 29 December - Marie Kean, actress (b.1918).
- Maeve Brennan, short story writer and journalist (b.1917).
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