player. David Stanton, Fine Gael TD for Cork East. 26 February – Charlie Nelligan, Kerry Gaelic footballer. 6 April – Dermot Mac Curtain, Cork hurler. 8 April – Richie Power, Kilkenny hurler. 23 April – Tommy Quaid, Limerick hurler (died 1998). 13 March – Patricia McKenna, Green Party politician. 7 March – Seán Crowe, Sinn Féin TD for Dublin South-West. 21 March – Pat Breen, Fine Gael TD for Clare. 20 May – Dermot Gallagher, soccer referee. 28 May – Dick O'Hara, Kilkenny hurler. 17 June – Philip Chevron, born Philip Ryan, Celtic punk singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013). 20 June – Kieran Brennan, Kilkenny hurler and Irish Army General. 17 July – Terry Eviston, soccer player. 2 August – Ashley Grimes, soccer player and coach. 28 August – Tom Cashman, Cork hurler. 26 September – Finbar Wright, singer. 8 October – Martha Kearney, radio journalist. 14 October – John Henderson, Kilkenny hurler. 16 October – Eoin Liston, Kerry Gaelic footballer. 6 November – Siobhán McCarthy, actress. 19 November – Jack O'Shea, Kerry Gaelic footballer. 24 November – John Minihan, soldier, Progressive Democrats Seanad Éireann member. 12 December – Jon Kenny, comedian. 17 December – Robbie Gaffney, soccer player. 25 December – Shane MacGowan, Celtic punk singer-songwriter. Undated Desmond Dinan, academic and author. Angela Downey, Kilkenny camogie player. Shani Mootoo, fiction writer and visual artist. Paul Woodfull, writer, actor, comedian and musician Deaths 1 January – Fergal O'Hanlon, Irish Republican Army member killed with Seán South attacking the Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Brookeborough (born 1936). 1 January – Seán South, IRA leader fatally wounded during an attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Brookeborough (born 1929). 11 January – Anthony Mulvey, editor and Nationalist Party MP (born 1882). 16 February – John Sealy Townsend, mathematical physicist (died 1868). 25 March – Ernie O'Malley, prominent officer in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and on anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War and a writer (born 1897). 28 March – Jack B. Yeats, artist (born 1871). 29 March – John J. O'Kelly, politician, author and publisher, president of the Gaelic League and Sinn Féin (born 1872). 11 April – Freeman Wills Crofts, novelist (born 1879). 23 May – William Meldon, cricketer (born 1879). 26 May – Edward Hutchinson Synge, theoretical physicist (born 1890) 1 August – Cathal O'Byrne, singer, poet and writer (born 1867). 22