Robert F. Kennedy�s granddaughter, Saoirse Kennedy Hill, has died, the family announced Thursday night.

The Kennedy family�s statement followed reports of a death at the storied Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. The statement was issued by Brian Wright O�Connor, a spokesman for Saoirse Hill�s uncle, former congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II.

Hill was the daughter of Robert and Ethel Kennedy�s fifth child, Courtney, and Paul Michael Hill, who was one of four falsely convicted in the 1974 Irish Republican Army bombings of two pubs.

�She lit up our lives with her love, her peals of laughter and her generous spirit,� the statement said, adding that she was passionate about human rights and women�s empowerment and worked with indigenous communities to build schools in Mexico.

She attended Boston College, where she was a member of the class of 2020, the university confirmed to The Boston Globe.

The family statement did not include a cause of death.

The Cape & Islands district attorney�s office said Barnstable police responded to a home �for a reported unattended death� Thursday afternoon, according to a statement cited by news outlets. Barnstable police and Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the district attorney�s office are investigating.

�The world is a little less beautiful today,� Hill�s 91-year-old grandmother, Ethel Kennedy, was quoted as saying in the statement.

(AP)