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Death
Nora Connolly O'Brien died in a Dublin hospital, Meath Hospital on the 17th of June 1981, ten days after being first admitted to hospital due to failing health. She was aged 88. Nora was the last of seven children. As she had no children of her own she survived by family relatives and a number of niece's and nephew's.Her husband Seamus died in 1962 which was nineteen years before Nora died.

She is buried at Glasnevin Cemetery in Co.Dublin. Before she died, Nora requested to have a Republican Funeral. More than 200 people gathered at her graveside in Glasnevin on her funeral date and her life was celebrated in the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Drimnagh. The Taoiseach at the time Charles Haughey did not attend her funeral even though he had planned to attend. When asked to comment about not attending he refused but sources have said that the Taoiseach would not fit in due to it being a Republican funeral.