Moira Deady

{{Short description|Irish actress}}

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{{Infobox person

| name= Moira Deady

| image = Moira Hoey.jpg

| imagesize = 220px

| birth_date = 13 March 1922Date of birth per email from

Patrick O'Donovan & Son, Funeral Directors Ltd. (aka Greystones Funeral Home)
"Ormond Centre", Victoria Road, Greystones, County Wicklow.

| birth_place = County Cork, Ireland

| death_date = 15 November 2010 (aged 88)

| death_place= Loughlinstown Hospital, County Dublin, Ireland

| occupation = Actress

| spouse = Johnny Hoey (19??–10 August 1978; his death); 4 children

| notable_works = The Riordans
Glenroe}}

Moira Deady, Mrs Hoey (13 March 1922 – 15 November 2010){{cite news |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2010/1120/1224283761902.html|title=Actor whose 'Riordans' role fitted her like a glove|date=20 November 2010|accessdate=20 November 2010|newspaper=The Irish Times|url-access=subscription}}. was an Irish actress.

She starred as Mary Riordan, "the quintessential Irish mammy", in The Riordans from 1965 until the show was cancelled in 1979. She later appeared as Nellie Connors in Glenroe. She played Mrs Coffey in The Irish R.M. She had roles in such films as This Is My Father and Angela's Ashes (as the grandmother.

Raised in Cork City, County Cork, she later resided in Greystones, County Wicklow.{{cite news|last=Bray |first=Allison |url=http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/celebrity-news-gossip/tributes-flow-for-soap-matriarch-2421863.html |title=Tributes flow for soap matriarch|date=16 November 2010|accessdate=16 November 2010|work=Irish Independent |url-access=subscription}} She began acting by traveling around Ireland as part of fit-ups (traveling theatre troupes).

She was a member of Equity Players in 1946, who toured a programme of Abbey Theatre and other famous plays.{{Cite web |url=http://deevy.nuim.ie/items/show/356|title=Teresa Deevy archive|website=deevy.nuim.ie|publisher=nuim.ie|accessdate=14 October 2016}}

In 1954, she married fellow The Riordans actor John "Johnny" Hoey (who played "Francie Maher"). John Hoey died on 10 August 1978, aged 69.[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=109696298&PIpi=79267546 Johnny Hoey gravesite], findagrave.com; accessed 13 March 2014. The couple had four children, Kevin, Mary, Bernadette, and Brenda. Fans often thought she was married in real life to actor John Cowley who played "Tom Riordan", her television husband.{{cite news|last=Healy |first=Alison |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/1119/1224283711428.html|title='Riordans' star Moira Hoey is laid to rest|date=19 November 2010|accessdate=19 November 2010|newspaper=The Irish Times|publisher=Irish Times Trust}} {{subscription required}}

In 2009, she reunited with the cast members of the rural drama The Riordans for an RTÉ documentary on the programme.{{cite news |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/1115/breaking48.html|title='Riordans' star dies, aged 88|date=15 November 2010|accessdate=15 November 2010|newspaper=The Irish Times|url-access=subscription}}{{cite news |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2010/1120/1224283761902.html|date=11 November 2010|accessdate=30 July 2011 |publisher=Irish Times|title=Actor whose 'Riordans' role fitted her like a glove}} She was one of a small number of Riordans actors to work on both its successor series Bracken and Glenroe.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0212610|accessdate=30 July 2011|title=Moira Deady|publisher=IMDb}}{{cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/ten/2010/1115/hoeym.html|accessdate=30 July 2011|publisher=RTÉ|title=Moira Hoey dies, 88}}