# List of members of Seanad Éireann who died in office

The following is a list of members of Seanad Éireann who died in office.

## Free State Seanad (1922–1936)

| Member | Party | Date of death | Age at death (years) |
| Thomas MacPartlin | Labour | 20 October 1923 | 44 |
| Stephen O'Mara | Cumann na nGaedheal | 26 July 1926 | 81 |
| Martin Fitzgerald | Independent | 9 March 1927 | 61 |
| Dermot Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo | Independent | 31 December 1927 | 76 |
| William Sears | Cumann na nGaedheal | 23 March 1929 | 60–61 |
| Alice Stopford Green | Independent | 28 May 1929 | 81 |
| Nugent Everard | Independent | 12 July 1929 | 79 |
| Bryan Mahon | Independent | 29 September 1930 | 68 |
| Patrick W. Kenny | Independent | 22 April 1931 | 67–68 |
| Patrick Hooper | Independent | 6 September 1931 | 58 |
| Ellen Cuffe, Countess of Desart | Independent | 29 June 1933 | 75 |
| Séamus Ryan | Fianna Fáil | 30 June 1933 | 37 |
| George Crosbie | Cumann na nGaedheal | 27 November 1934 | 70 |

## Seanad Éireann (since 1937)

| Member | Party | Panel/Constituency | Date of death | Age at death (years) | Cause |
| Thomas Delany | Independent | Cultural and Educational | 9 July 1939 | 70–71 | |
| Maurice George Moore | Independent | Nominated by the Taoiseach | 8 September 1939 | 85 | |
| Patrick Keohane | Independent | Nominated by the Taoiseach | 4 December 1939 | 68–69 | |
| Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich | Independent | Nominated by the Taoiseach | 1 July 1942 | 85 | |
| Pádraic Ó Máille | Fianna Fáil | Nominated by the Taoiseach | 19 January 1946 | 67 | |
| William Magennis | Independent | Nominated by the Taoiseach | 30 March 1946 | 78 | |
| John Thomas Keane | Independent | Labour | 22 May 1946 | | |
| Thomas Kennedy | Labour | Labour | 18 September 1947 | 59–60 | |
| Joseph Brennan | Independent | Industrial and Commercial | 1 February 1950 | | |
| Seán Campbell | Labour | Labour | 27 February 1950 | 60 | |
| Helena Concannon | Fianna Fáil | National University | 27 February 1952 | 73 | |
| Michael Colgan | Independent | Labour | 22 June 1953 | | |
| James Kilroy | Fianna Fáil | Agricultural | 5 January 1954 | 63–64 | |
| James B. Lynch | Fianna Fáil | Industrial and Commercial | 12 March 1954 | 64–65 | |
| James G. Douglas | Independent | Nominated by the Taoiseach | 16 September 1954 | 67 | |
| William Quirke | Fianna Fáil | Agricultural | 5 March 1955 | 58–59 | |
| Matthew Smith | Fianna Fáil | Industrial and Commercial | 3 November 1955 | | |
| Andrew Clarkin | Fianna Fáil | Industrial and Commercial | 23 November 1955 | 63–64 | |
| James McGee | Independent | Industrial and Commercial | 19 January 1956 | 70 | |
| Frederick Hawkins | Independent | Labour | 2 August 1956 | | |
| Seán Moylan | Fianna Fáil | Nominated by the Taoiseach | 16 November 1957 | 67 | |
| Patrick Baxter | Clann na Talmhan | Agricultural | 3 April 1959 | 67 | |
| John O'Leary | Labour | Administrative | 21 June 1959 | 64 | |
| William Fearon | Independent | Dublin University | 27 December 1959 | 67 | |
| Frank Purcell | Independent | Labour | 2 April 1960 | | |
| Henry Barniville | Fine Gael | National University | 23 September 1960 | 73 | |
| John Donnelly Sheridan | Independent | Agricultural | 5 April 1963 | | |
| Daniel Moloney | Fianna Fáil | Industrial and Commercial | 26 June 1963 | 53 | |
| Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha | Independent | Nominated by the Taoiseach | 19 November 1964 | 81 | |
| Margaret Mary Pearse | Fianna Fáil | Administrative | 7 November 1968 | 90 | |
| James Martin | Fianna Fáil | Agricultural | 3 October 1969 | 63–64 | |
| Owen Sheehy-Skeffington | Independent | Dublin University | 7 June 1970 | 61 | Heart attack |
| Jimmy Dunne | Labour | Labour | 23 February 1972 | 50–51 | |
| Cornelius O'Callaghan | Fianna Fáil | Agricultural | 24 January 1974 | 51–52 | |
| Billy Fox | Fine Gael | Cultural and Educational | 12 March 1974 | 35 | Assassination – shot during the Troubles |
| Bob Aylward | Fianna Fáil | Agricultural | 18 July 1974 | 63 | |
| Denis Farrelly | Fine Gael | Industrial and Commercial | 27 December 1974 | 62 | |
| Mary Walsh | Fine Gael | Cultural and Educational | 18 August 1976 | 46 | |
| Jack Garrett | Fianna Fáil | Administrative | 11 September 1977 | 63 | |
| Jack Daly | Fine Gael | Industrial and Commercial | 5 May 1988 | 72 | |
| Gordon Wilson | Independent | Nominated by the Taoiseach | 27 June 1995 | 67 | Heart attack |
| Seán Fallon | Fianna Fáil | Industrial and Commercial | 4 July 1995 | 57 | |
| Liam Naughten | Fine Gael | Agricultural | 16 November 1996 | 52 | Traffic accident |
| Patrick McGowan | Fianna Fáil | Agricultural | 3 October 1999 | 73 | |
| Kate Walsh | Progressive Democrats | Nominated by the Taoiseach | 24 April 2007 | 60 | Complications from diabetes |
| Tony Kett | Fianna Fáil | Administrative | 19 April 2009 | 57 | Cancer |
| Peter Callanan | Fianna Fáil | Agricultural | 11 October 2009 | 74 | |
| Kieran Phelan | Fianna Fáil | Industrial and Commercial | 26 May 2010 | 60 | |