27 March – Gaby Lewis, cricketer 8 August – Tyler Toland, footballer 19 October – Art Parkinson, actor Deaths January to June 5 January – G. E. M. Anscombe, analytic philosopher (b. 1919) 21 February – Desmond Leslie, pilot, filmmaker and writer (b. 1921) 8 March – Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet (b. 1898) 18 May – Seán Mac Stíofáin, English-born, Irish republican paramilitary leader (b. 1928) 1 June – Peter Corr, international soccer player and father of The Corrs members (b. 1923) 27 June – Michael Moynihan, Labour Party Senator and TD (b. 1917) July to December 4 July – Anne Yeats, painter and stage designer (born 1919). 1 August – Joe Lynch, actor (born 1925). 27 August – John Joe 'Purty' Landers, Kerry Gaelic footballer (born 1907). 31 August – Donal O'Sullivan, Cork Gaelic footballer (born 1930). 23 September – Kevin Boland, Fianna Fáil TD, served as Minister for Defence, Minister for Social Welfare and Minister for Local Government (born 1917). 24 October – Eamon Kelly, actor (born 1914). 27 October – Seán Condon, Cork hurler (born 1923). 4 November – Denis Gallagher, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister (born 1922). 10 December – Freddie Anderson, playwright and socialist (born 1922). 12 December – Michael Torrens-Spence, held commissions in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm, the Royal Air Force, the British Army, Ulster Special Constabulary and Ulster Defence Regiment (born 1914). 14 December – Eoin Ryan, Fianna Fáil Seanad Éireann member (born 1920). 23 December – Mark Clinton, Fine Gael TD, former Minister for Agriculture and MEP (born 1915). See also 2001 in Irish television References