List of members of Dáil Éireann who died in office explained

The following is a list of members of Dáil Éireann (Teachtaí Dála or TDs) who died in office.

Dáil	Member	Party		Constituency	Date of death	Age at death (years)	Cause
1st	Pierce McCan		Sinn Féin	Tipperary East	nowrap	6 March 1919	nowrap	36	Spanish flu^[1]
1st	Terence MacSwiney		Cork Mid	nowrap	25 October 1920	nowrap	41	Hunger strike in prison during the Irish War of Independence^[2]
2nd	Frank Lawless		Dublin County	nowrap	16 April 1922	nowrap	51	Carriage accident
2nd	Joseph McGuinness		Longford–Westmeath	nowrap	31 May 1922	nowrap	47
3rd	Cathal Brugha		Waterford–Tipperary	nowrap	7 July 1922	nowrap	47	Killed in action during the Irish Civil War
3rd	Harry Boland		Mayo South–Roscommon South	nowrap	1 August 1922	nowrap	35	Killed in action during the Irish Civil War^[3]
3rd	Arthur Griffith		Cavan	nowrap	12 August 1922	nowrap	51	Cerebral hemorrhage, heart failure^[4]
3rd	Michael Collins		Cork Mid, North, South, South East and West	nowrap	22 August 1922	nowrap	31	Assassinated – shot by the Anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War^[5]
3rd	James Devins		Sligo–Mayo East	nowrap	20 September 1922	nowrap	48	Executed by Pro-Treaty forces during the Irish Civil War^[6]
3rd	Seán Hales		Cork Mid, North, South, South East and West	nowrap	7 December 1922	42	Assassinated – shot by the Anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War^[7]
3rd	Joseph MacDonagh		Tipperary Mid, North and South	nowrap	25 December 1922	39	Burst appendix during a hunger strike against the Anglo-Irish Treaty
3rd	Francis Ferran		Sligo–Mayo East	nowrap	10 June 1923		Died in prison^[8]
4th	Philip Cosgrave		Dublin South	nowrap	22 October 1923	38	Nephritis^[9]
4th	Michael Derham		Dublin County	nowrap	20 November 1923^[10]	33
4th	Thomas O'Mahony		Cork East	nowrap	20 July 1924
4th	Darrell Figgis		Dublin County	nowrap	27 October 1925	43	Suicide^[11]
4th	James Ledden		Limerick	nowrap	19 January 1927^[12]	nowrap
5th	Kevin O'Higgins		Dublin County	nowrap	10 July 1927	35	Assassinated – shot by the IRA^[13]
5th	Constance Markievicz		Dublin South	nowrap	15 July 1927	59	Complications from an appendicitis operation^[14]
6th	Samuel Holt		Leitrim–Sligo	nowrap	18 April 1929	48	Fever^[15]
6th	James Killane		Longford–Westmeath	nowrap	26 April 1930	55
6th	Bryan Cooper		Dublin County	nowrap	5 July 1930	46
6th	Hugh Colohan		Kildare	nowrap	15 April 1931	nowrap	60–61
6th	Peter de Loughry		Carlow–Kilkenny	nowrap	23 October 1931	47–48
6th	William Aird		Leix–Offaly	nowrap	31 October 1931
7th	John Daly		Cork East	nowrap	23 February 1932	64
7th	William Redmond		Waterford	nowrap	17 April 1932	45
7th	Frank Carney		Donegal	nowrap	19 October 1932^[16]	36
7th	Thomas Finlay		Dublin County	nowrap	22 November 1932	39	Typhoid fever
8th	James Craig		Dublin University	nowrap	12 July 1933	nowrap	71^[17]
8th	Martin McDonogh		Galway	nowrap	24 November 1934	nowrap	75–76
8th	Batt O'Connor		Dublin County	nowrap	7 February 1935	64
8th	Patrick Hogan		Galway	nowrap	14 July 1936	45	Car accident^[18]
8th	Sir Osmond Esmonde		Wexford	22 July 1936	nowrap	40^[19]
8th	James Burke		Cork West	nowrap	10 September 1936^[20]	nowrap	62–63
9th	Eamon Rice		Monaghan	nowrap	7 November 1937	64
10th	James Beckett		Dublin South	nowrap	19 December 1938	63
10th	Seán Tubridy		Galway West	nowrap	15 July 1939^[21]	nowrap	41–42
10th	Denis Gorey		Kilkenny	nowrap	20 February 1940	65
10th	Séamus Moore		Wicklow	nowrap	14 June 1940^[22]
10th	Brook Brasier		Cork South-East	nowrap	30 August 1940	61
10th	John Munnelly		Mayo North	nowrap	18 October 1941^[23]
10th	Thomas Dowdall		Cork Borough	nowrap	7 April 1942^[24]	nowrap	69–70
10th	Thomas Kelly		Dublin South	nowrap	20 April 1942	73
10th	Frank Carty		Sligo	nowrap	10 September 1942	45
10th	Hugo Flinn		Cork Borough	nowrap	28 January 1943^[25]	63
10th	Jeremiah Hurley		Cork South-East	nowrap	2 February 1943	nowrap	51–52
12th	Patrick Burke		Clare	nowrap	7 February 1945	65
12th	Frederick Crowley		Kerry South	nowrap	5 May 1945^[26]	54
12th	Richard Corish		Wexford	nowrap	19 July 1945	58
12th	William O'Donnell		Tipperary	nowrap	4 February 1947
12th	Patrick Fogarty		Dublin County	nowrap	2 May 1947
12th	Michael Morrissey		Waterford	nowrap	10 May 1947
12th	James Hughes		Carlow–Kildare	nowrap	1 January 1948	nowrap	52–53
12th	Martin Roddy		Sligo	nowrap	8 January 1948	64
13th	Neal Blaney		Donegal East	nowrap	30 October 1948	nowrap	58	Cancer
13th	Timothy J. Murphy		Cork West	nowrap	29 April 1949^[27]	55
13th	Brian Brady		Donegal West	nowrap	10 September 1949	46
13th	Joseph Mongan		Galway West	nowrap	12 March 1951	71
14th	Daniel Bourke		Limerick East	nowrap	13 April 1952	nowrap	65–66
14th	Bridget Redmond			nowrap	3 May 1952^[28]	47
14th	P. J. Ruttledge		Mayo North	nowrap	8 May 1952	60
14th	A. P. Byrne		Dublin North-West	nowrap	26 July 1952	39
14th	Thomas Brennan		Wicklow	nowrap	22 January 1953^[29]	nowrap	66–67
14th	Seán Keane		Cork East	nowrap	29 March 1953	53
14th	Frank Fahy		Galway South	nowrap	12 July 1953^[30]	73
14th	Thomas F. O'Higgins		Cork Borough	nowrap	1 November 1953	62
14th	James Coburn		Louth	nowrap	5 December 1953	71
15th	David Madden		Limerick West	nowrap	31 July 1955	nowrap	74–75
15th	Johnny Connor		Kerry North	nowrap	11 December 1955	56	Road accident
15th	William Davin		Leix–Offaly	nowrap	1 March 1956^[31]	66
15th	Alfie Byrne		Dublin North-East	nowrap	13 March 1956^[32]	73
15th	Patrick McGrath		Cork Borough	nowrap	20 June 1956
15th	Thomas Walsh		Carlow–Kilkenny	nowrap	14 July 1956	54	Road accident^[33]
15th	Peadar Doyle		Dublin South-West	nowrap	4 August 1956^[34]
16th	Colm Gallagher		Dublin North-Central	nowrap	26 June 1957
16th	Patrick Beegan		Galway South	nowrap	2 February 1958^[35]	62
16th	Bernard Butler		Dublin South-West	nowrap	13 March 1959	72
16th	James Griffin		Meath	nowrap	22 March 1959	59
16th	Joseph Hughes		Carlow–Kilkenny	nowrap	20 January 1960^[36]	54
16th	Stephen Flynn		Sligo–Leitrim	nowrap	24 November 1960
16th	Denis Allen		Wexford	nowrap	29 March 1961	65
16th	Francis Humphreys		Carlow–Kilkenny	nowrap	19 April 1961	69
17th	Jack Belton		Dublin North-East	nowrap	23 February 1963
17th	John Galvin		Cork Borough	nowrap	11 October 1963	56
17th	William Norton		Kildare	nowrap	4 December 1963	63
17th	James Burke		Roscommon	nowrap	12 May 1964
17th	Michael Donnellan		Galway East	nowrap	27 September 1964	nowrap	63–64
17th	Dan Desmond		Cork Mid	nowrap	9 December 1964^[37]	51	Heart attack caused by tuberculosis
18th	Honor Crowley		Kerry South	nowrap	18 October 1966	62
18th	Thaddeus Lynch		Waterford	nowrap	25 October 1966	nowrap	64–65
18th	Seán Casey		Cork Borough	nowrap	29 April 1967	44
18th	James Collins		Limerick West	nowrap	1 September 1967^[38]	66
18th	William Murphy		Clare	nowrap	16 November 1967	75
18th	James Everett		Wicklow	nowrap	18 December 1967	77
18th	Donogh O'Malley		Limerick East	nowrap	10 March 1968^[39]	47
18th	James Kennedy		Wexford	nowrap	13 September 1968^[40]	59
18th	Don Davern		Tipperary South	nowrap	2 November 1968^[41]	33
18th	Patrick Hogan		Clare	nowrap	24 January 1969^[42]	83
19th	Seán Dunne		Dublin South-West	nowrap	25 June 1969	50
19th	Gerard Sweetman		Kildare	nowrap	28 January 1970^[43]	61	Road accident
19th	Patrick Lenihan		Longford–Westmeath	nowrap	11 March 1970	67
19th	Patrick O'Donnell		Donegal–Leitrim	nowrap	4 October 1970^[44]	63
19th	Paddy Forde		Cork Mid	nowrap	13 May 1972	49
19th	Patrick Hogan		Tipperary South	nowrap	5 October 1972	65
20th	Liam Ahern		Cork North-East	nowrap	13 July 1974	58
20th	Michael F. Kitt		Galway North-East	nowrap	24 December 1974^[45]	60
20th	Johnny Geoghegan		Galway West	nowrap	5 January 1975	61
20th	Henry Kenny		Mayo West	nowrap	25 September 1975	62	Cancer
20th	Liam Cunningham		Donegal North-East	nowrap	29 February 1976	61
20th	Noel Lemass		Dublin South-West	nowrap	13 April 1976^[46]	47
21st	Seán Brosnan		Cork North-East	nowrap	18 April 1979	62
21st	Patrick Kerrigan		Cork City	nowrap	4 July 1979	51
21st	Joseph Brennan	(serving as Ceann Comhairle)	Donegal	nowrap	13 July 1980^[47]	67
22nd	Kieran Doherty		Cavan–Monaghan	nowrap	2 August 1981	25	Hunger strike in prison during the Troubles^[48]
23rd	Johnny Callanan		Galway East	nowrap	15 June 1982	72
23rd	Bill Loughnane		Clare	nowrap	18 October 1982	67
24th	Clement Coughlan		Donegal South-West	nowrap	1 February 1983	40	Road accident
24th	George Colley		Dublin Central	nowrap	17 September 1983	57	Heart disease
24th	Bernard Cowen		Laois–Offaly	nowrap	24 January 1984	51
24th	Cathal Coughlan		Donegal South-West	nowrap	21 June 1986	48
25th	Frank Cluskey		Dublin South-Central	nowrap	7 May 1989	59	Cancer
27th	Gerry O'Sullivan		Cork North-Central	nowrap	5 August 1994	58
27th	Johnny Fox		Wicklow	nowrap	17 March 1995	46
27th	Brian Lenihan Snr		Dublin West	nowrap	1 November 1995	64
27th	Neil Blaney		Donegal North-East	nowrap	8 November 1995	73	Cancer^[49]
28th	Jim Kemmy		Limerick East	nowrap	25 September 1997	61	Multiple myeloma^[50]
28th	Hugh Coveney		Cork South-Central	nowrap	14 March 1998	62	Fall from a cliff^[51]
28th	Pat Upton		Dublin South-Central	nowrap	22 February 1999	54	Heart attack^[52]
28th	Michael Ferris		Tipperary South	nowrap	20 March 2000	68
28th	Theresa Ahearn		Tipperary South	nowrap	20 September 2000	49	Cancer^[53]
30th	Séamus Brennan		Dublin South	nowrap	9 July 2008	60	Cancer^[54]
30th	Tony Gregory		Dublin Central	nowrap	2 January 2009	61	Cancer^[55]
31st	Brian Lenihan Jnr		Dublin West	nowrap	10 June 2011	nowrap	52	Pancreatic cancer^[56]
31st	Shane McEntee		Meath East	nowrap	21 December 2012	nowrap	56	Suicide^[57]
31st	Nicky McFadden		Longford–Westmeath	nowrap	25 March 2014	nowrap	51	Motor neurone disease^[58]

See also

• List of members of Seanad Éireann who died in office
• List of Dáil by-elections

External links

• Directory of Members - Houses of the Oireachtas - Tithe an Oireachtais

Notes and References

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38. Web site: James Collins. ElectionsIreland.org. 14 August 2012.
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