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 1932 - 2016 (84 years)
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| Name |
Richard Keith Irish |
| Born |
30 May 1932 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT  |
| Gender |
Male |
| 1940 16th US Census |
1940 |
Balboa, Panama |
1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Dickie K Irish
Age: 7
Estimated Birth Year: 1933
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Utah
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Home in 1940: Fort Clayton, Balboa, Panama Canal
Map of Home in 1940: Fort Clayton, Balboa, Panama Canal
House Number: 14-a
Sheet Number: 3A
Attended School or College: Yes
Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 1st grade
Household Members:
Name Age
Juliet W Irish 43
Wynot R Irish 43
Daisy R Reece 33
Dorothy C Irish 17
Wilkin Irish 12
Dickie K Irish 7
Source Citation: Year: 1940; Census Place: Fort Clayton, Balboa, Panama Canal; Roll: m-t0627-04642; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 1-21 |
| Obituary |
2016 |
| Richard K. "Dick" Irish, 83, author of the "Go Hire Yourself an Employer", a popular self-help book in the 1970s, died Friday at his home in Marshall Va. His wife, Pat Reilly, said he died of complications related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Mr. Irish was an early member of the Peace Corps, serving with his late wife, Sally Irish, in the Philippines between 1962 and 1964. They were teachers in a Muslim village in Mindanao, where Mr. Irish attained the honorific of Sultan of Raya. He later learned that meant a leader with no followers. He named his farm Raya. Prior to the Peace Corps, Mr. Irish had served in the U.S. Army in the 83rd Engineer Battalion, Bussac, France, as a German interpreter from 1954 to 1956. After a brief stint at Peace Corps Headquarters under Sergeant Shriver in the late 1960s, Mr. Irish left the Peace Corps to help found the TransCentury Corporation in Adams Morgan and became an international executive search specialist. He was vice-president of Career Planning Consultants Inc. of Charlottesville, Va. He later started his own consultancy called Leadership Search, which specialized in finding the executives of nonprofit organizations. It was as a result of this work that he published "Go Hire Yourself an Employer" (Doubleday/Anchor 1973), which went to three editions and sold over 800,000 copies, "If Things Don't Improve Soon, I May Ask You to Fire Me" (1975) and "How to Live Separately Together - A Guide for Working Couples" (1981). Mr. Irish was finishing work on "Allies and Adversaries: Churchill and the Man Who Would be France", when he died. It will be published as an e-book later this year. Richard Irish was born June 26, 1932, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of Col. Wynot Rush Irish and Juliet Wilkin Irish. Stationed with his family in post-war Germany, he attended Institut Montana, a prep school in Switzerland. He transferred to Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, where he received the Nevils Diplomatic History Prize. On graduation in 1954, he was drafted into the Army and sent back to Europe. He then taught at the Institut Montana. His first wife, Sally Irish, died in 2003. He is survived by his wife of 10 years, Pat Reilly, a sister, Dorothy Beall, and many nieces and nephews. Mr. Irish was a member of the National Peace Corps Association and the Cosmos Club in Washington D.C. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Middleburg Humane Society or the Marshall Rescue Squad. Funeral services will be held at noon on Thursday, June 23, at the Trinity Episcopal Church, Upperville, Va., where he will be buried in the church cemetery. |
| Book Reference |
11384  |
| Died |
17 Jun 2016 |
| Buried |
Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery, Upperville, Fauquier Co., VA, USA |
| Person ID |
I11604 |
irish |
| Last Modified |
7 Jun 2019 |
| Father |
Wynot Rush Irish, b. 31 Mar 1897, Pine Island, Goodhue Co., MN , d. 16 Nov 1971 (Age 74 years) |
| Mother |
Juliet Wilkin, b. 6 Jun 1896, Fairplay, Park Co., CO , d. 10 May 1958, Denver, Denver Co., CO (Age 61 years) |
| Married |
24 Oct 1919 |
| Family ID |
F3922 |
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