actor. 15 January – Padraig Amond, soccer player. 23 January – Alan Power, soccer player. 29 January – Owen Garvan, soccer player. 21 February – Darren Forsyth, soccer player. 22 February – Robert Bayly, soccer player. 21 March – Kevin Guthrie, actor. 2 May – Stephen Henderson, soccer player. 21 May – Adam Rooney, soccer player. 25 June – Grace O'Malley, Pirate, head of the Ó Máille dynasty. 14 July – Conor McGregor, mixed martial artist. 25 July – Anthony Stokes, soccer player. 26 July – Grainne Leahy, pharmacist. 14 September – Shane Tracy, soccer player. 22 September – Keith Quinn, soccer player. 11 October – Joe Canning, hurler (Portumna, Galway, Connacht). 28 October – Devon Murray, actor Deaths January to June 1 January – Sister Philippa Brazill, nurse in Australia (born 1896). 1 January – Dan Spring, Gaelic footballer, trade unionist and Labour Party TD (born 1910). 15 January – Seán MacBride, former Clann na Poblachta TD, Cabinet Minister, Nobel Peace Prize winner (born 1904). 2 February – Frederick Blaney, cricketer (born 1918). 1 March – Tommy Breen, international soccer player (born 1912). 19 March – Máirtín Ó Direáin, poet (born 1910). 2 April – E. Chambré Hardman, photographer (born 1898). 10 May – Ciarán Bourke, musician, an original member of The Dubliners (born 1936). 5 June – Robert Dudley Edwards, historian (born 1909). 11 June – Nick O'Donnell, Kilkenny and Wexford hurler (born 1925). July to December 17 July – Frank Carter, Fianna Fáil TD, Seanad member (born 1910). 17 September – Mick Cashman, Cork hurler (born 1931). 10 October – Sonny Hool, cricketer (born 1924). 27 October – Frank Devlin, badminton player (born 1900). November – Terry Leahy, Kilkenny hurler (born 1918). 7 December – Peter Langan, restaurateur (born 1941). 8 December – John Joe McGirl, chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (born 1921). 21 December – Eithne Dunne, actress (born 1919). 22 December – Jack Bowden, cricketer and hockey player (born 1916). Full date unknown Tommy Potts, fiddle player (born 1912). Ed Reavy, fiddle player and songwriter (born 1897). See also 1988 in Irish television References 1980s in Ireland Years of the 20th century in Ireland Ireland