Scott, actor Full date unknown Paddy Christie, Dublin Gaelic footballer. Kevin Flynn, Dublin hurler. Donal Ryan, novelist. Deaths 5 January – John A. Costello, barrister, Attorney General, Fine Gael TD and twice Taoiseach (born 1891). 19 January – John Hunt, antiquarian (born 1900 in England). 23 January – David Sullivan, labour leader in USA (born 1904). 2 February – Gardner Budd, lawyer. 6 February – Dan Kennedy, Kilkenny hurler (born 1926). 12 February – Frank Stagg, Provisional Irish Republican Army hunger striker for 62 days in Wakefield Prison (born 1942). 28 February – Pat Hone, cricketer (born 1886). 29 February – Liam Cunningham, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1915). 8 March – Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster, peer and gambler (born 1892). 13 April Willie Hough, Limerick hurler (born 1892). Noel Lemass, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1929). 4 May – Hugh Delargy, British Labour Party politician and MP (born 1908). 27 June – Derrick Kennedy, cricketer (born 1904). 11 July – Michael Hayes, pro-treaty TD, Cabinet Minister, Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann member (born 1889). 22 July – Jim Ganly, cricketer and rugby player (born 1904). 29 July – Knox Cunningham, barrister, businessman and Ulster Unionist politician (born 1909). 12 September – Reginald Lyons, cricketer (born 1922). 7 October – Michael O'Neill, nationalist politician and MP (born 1909). 15 October – James Ennis, cricketer (born 1900). 31 October – Eileen Gray, architect and designer (born 1878). 2 November – Walter Starkie, author and translator (born 1894). 14 November – Frederick Alfred Pile, soldier and politician (born 1884). 4 December – W. F. McCoy, Ulster Unionist member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland (born 1886). See also 1976 in Irish television References External links 1970s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 20th century in Ireland