page_title: 1989 in Ireland
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1989 in Ireland / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: English: Samuel Beckett, 1977
context_page_description: Events from the year 1989 in Ireland.
context_section_description: 24 January – Michael Scott, architect (born 1905).
  27 January – Dónall Mac Amhlaigh, writer (born 1926).
  January – Jackie Wright, comedian (born 1905).
  11 March – Simon Curley, cricketer (born 1917).
  7 April – Frank Cluskey, former leader of the Labour Party (born 1930).
  3 May – John Mackey, Limerick hurler (born 1913).
  15 June – Ray McAnally, actor (born 1926).
  July – Eddie Gannon, soccer player (born 1921).
  3 August – Dominic Behan, songwriter, novelist and playwright (born 1928).
  10 August – H. Montgomery Hyde, barrister, author and Ulster Unionist MP (born 1907).
  12 September – Seamus Twomey, twice chief of staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (born 1919).
  4 November – Vivian Mercier, literary critic (born 1919).
  14 December – Gerry Healy, British Trotskyist leader (born 1913).
  22 December – Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize in Literature 1969, playwright, novelist and poet (born 1906).
caption: Samuel Beckett died in December.
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