Maynard, four-time speed windsurfing world champion, winner of a world speed record for sailing. 24 November – Peter Barry, Kilkenny hurler. 27 November – Roy O'Brien, association football player. 3 December – Andrew Maxwell, comedian. 4 December – Jason Molins, cricketer. 7 December – Brendan Kennedy, association football player. 8 December – Ian Malone, member of British Army's Irish Guards (shot dead in Iraq 2003). 30 December – Camille O'Sullivan, singer (born in London). Full date unknown Alan Browne, Cork hurler. Philly Larkin, Kilkenny hurler. Fergal McCormack, Cork hurler. Deaths 1 January – Bob Fullam, association football player (born 1897; died in London). 4 January – Phelim Calleary, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1895). 24 January – Cornelius O'Callaghan, Fianna Fáil senator 1970–1974 (born 1922). 15 February – Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, cryptanalyst, chess player, and chess writer (born 1909). 9 March – Daniel O'Neill, painter (born 1920). 19 March – Austin Clarke, poet, playwright and writer (born 1896). 10 April – Patricia Collinge, actress and writer (born 1892). 28 May – Richard Belton, medical doctor, member of the 12th Seanad (born 1913). 3 June – Michael Gaughan, Provisional Irish Republican Army hunger striker (born 1950; died in Parkhurst Prison). 10 June – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, member of the British royal family, last surviving knight of the Order of St Patrick (born 1900 in England). 30 June – Frank McKelvey, painter (born 1895). 5 July – James Young, comedian (born 1918). 13 August – Kate O'Brien, novelist (born 1897). 9 October – Padraic Fallon, poet (born 1905). 17 November – Erskine Childers, Fianna Fáil TD, cabinet minister, and fourth Irish President (born 1905). 23 November – Cornelius Ryan, journalist and author (born 1920). 1 December – Dick Grace, Kilkenny hurler (born 1890). 24 December – Michael F. Kitt, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1914). 25 December – Harry Kernoff, painter (born 1900). 27 December – Denis Farrelly, Fine Gael TD and senator (born 1912). Full date unknown Liam Deasy, Irish Republican Army officer in the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War (born 1898). See also 1974 in Irish television References 1970s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 20th century in Ireland