football player. 29 April – Adrian Maguire, jockey. 30 April – John Boyne, novelist. 18 June – Jason McAteer, international association football player. 28 June – Kenny Cunningham, association football player. 16 July – Joe McHugh, Fine Gael party Teachta Dála (TD) for Donegal North-East, senator. 30 July – Hubert Rigney, Offaly hurler. 2 August – Davy FitzGerald, Clare hurler. 4 August – Paul McCarthy, association football player (died 2017). 6 August – Conor McPherson, playwright and director. 10 August – Roy Keane, Manchester United and Glasgow Celtic footballer and Sunderland manager. 17 August – Anthony Kearns, tenor. 18 August – Aphex Twin (Richard D. James), electronic music artist. 31 August – Pádraig Harrington, golfer, winner of 2007 Open Championship. August – Brian Whelahan, Offaly hurler. 6 September – Dolores O'Riordan, rock singer-songwriter with The Cranberries (d. 2018). 7 October – Johnny Dooley, Offaly hurler, manager. 24 October – Dervla Kirwan, actress. 3 November – Dylan Moran, comedian, actor, and writer. 22 November – Kyran Bracken, rugby player 26 November – James McGarry, Kilkenny hurling goalkeeper. November – Brian Lohan, Clare hurler. 25 December – Noel Hogan, guitarist and songwriter. Full date unknown Amanda Coogan, performance artist. John Doyle, folk musician and songwriter with the band Usher's Island. Róisín McAliskey, political activist. Deaths 2 January – J. T. O'Farrell, trade union official, served in the Seanad (Senate) from 1922 to 1936 and 1948–50. 24 January – St John Ervine, playwright and novelist (born 1883). 28 January – Edward O'Connell, Cork hurler. 31 March – Michael Browne, Master General of the Dominicans, Cardinal (born 1887). 1 April – Kathleen Lonsdale, X-ray crystallographer (born 1903). May – Eamon Martin, a founder of Fianna Éireann and an Irish Volunteer fighting in the Easter Rising (born 1892). 4 May – Seamus Elliott, road bicycle racer (born 1934). 10 May – Archie Heron, trade union organiser. 11 May Seán Lemass, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet minister and taoiseach (born 1899). Eamon Martin, one of founders of Fianna Éireann, and an Irish Volunteer who fought in the Easter Rising (born 1893). 15 May – Tyrone Guthrie, theatrical director (born 1900). 13 June – Máiréad Ní Ghráda, poet and playwright. 14 June – Gerard Dillon, artist and painter (born 1916). 14 August – Shane Leslie, diplomat and writer (born 1885). 15 September – John Desmond Bernal, scientist (born 1901). 26 September – Conor Maguire, Chief Justice of Ireland