Townsend, association football player. 28 July – Eamon Ryan, Green Party TD for Dublin South and Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications. 22 August – Terry McHugh, javelin thrower. 31 August – Todd Carty, actor. 10 September – Marian Keyes, novelist. 24 September – Margaret Cox, Fianna Fáil senator. 25 September – Niall Cahalane, Cork Gaelic footballer. 9 November – Kieran O'Regan, association football player. 13 November – Joe Dooley, Offaly hurler, manager. 1 December – Paul Bradford, Fine Gael senator. 5 December – Tony Keady, Galway hurler (died 2017). Full date unknown Pat Boran, poet. Orla Kiely, fashion and textile designer. Bryan Smyth, singer, actor and television presenter. Deaths 17 January – Thomas Johnson, first parliamentary leader of the Labour Party, aged 91. 1 February – John Cardinal D'Alton, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1946 to 1963 (born 1882). 4 February – Brinsley MacNamara, novelist and playwright (born 1890). 22 February – Padraig O'Keeffe, fiddle player (born 1887). 3 March – Brian O'Higgins, Sinn Féin party member of parliament and party president (born 1882). 19 March – Joseph Brennan, civil servant and Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland (born 1887). 16 May – Patrick Little, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet minister (born 1884). 31 May – Seán O'Hegarty, Irish Republican Army member during the Irish War of Independence (born 1881). 12 June – Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, British admiral of the Second World War and First Sea Lord (born 1883). 23 June – George C. Bennett, Cumann na nGaedheal party TD, later joined Fine Gael and Seanad Éireann member (born 1877). 11 October – John Galvin, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1907). 30 October – Hugh O'Flaherty, Catholic priest, saved about 4,000 Allied soldiers and Jews in the Vatican during World War II (born 1898). 30 October – Domhnall Ua Buachalla, member of the First Dáil, Fianna Fáil TD, last Governor-General of the Irish Free State (born 1866). 2 November – Daniel Mannix, Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years (born 1864). 22 November – C. S. Lewis, novelist (born 1898). November – Patrick MacGill, journalist, poet, and novelist (born 1889). 4 December – William Norton, Labour Party leader, TD, and Cabinet minister (born 1900). 15 December – Oscar Traynor, Fianna Fáil politician (born 1886). December – Andy Kennedy, association footballer (born 1897). Full date unknown Charles Campbell, 2nd Baron