Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Football
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- Winners: Shelbourne
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- Winners: Shamrock Rovers 1 - 1, 1 - 0 Dundalk
Golf
Births
- 2 March - Paddy Cooney, solicitor, former Fine Gael TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP.
- 9 March - Jackie Healy-Rae, Fianna Fáil. TD for Kerry South.
- 9 April - Patrick Walsh, Bishop of Down & Connor (1991 - ).
- 5 June - Laurence Forristal, Bishop of Ossory (1981 - ).
- 8 July - Thomas Flynn, Bishop of Achonry (1976 - ).
- 26 July - Paddy Harte, former Fine Gael TD and Minister of State.
- 1 August - Seán Ó Riada, composer and musician (d.1971).
- 20 September - Malachy McCourt, actor, writer and politician.
- 13 October - Jimmy O'Neill, soccer player (d.2007).
- 27 October - Seán Calleary, former Fianna Fáil TD and Minister of State.
- 28 November - Dervla Murphy, travel writer.
- 1 December - Mervyn Taylor, former Irish Labour Party TD and Cabinet Minister.
Full date unknown
Deaths
- 7 March - Hamilton Lyster Reed, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 at the Battle of Colenso, South Africa (b.1869).
- 26 March - Timothy Michael Healy, Nationalist politician, journalist, author, barrister and first Governor-General of the Irish Free State (b.1855).
- 22 March - James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, lawyer, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, first Chairman of Seanad Éireann (b.1851).
- 2 April - Katharine Tynan, novelist and poet (b.1861).
- 13 April - William Dowler Morris, mayor of Ottawa (b.1857).
- 22 April - Patrick Kenny, Independent member of the Seanad for 12 years from 1922. Leas Ceann Comhairle 1928.
- 25 June - Con Lucid, Major League Baseball player (b.1874).
- 27 August - Frank Harris, author, editor, journalist and publisher (b.1856).
- 29 September - William Orpen, painter (b.1878).
- 18 October - Reginald Clare Hart, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 in the Bazar Valley, Afghanistan (b.1848).
- 23 October - Peter de Loughry, member of 1922 Seanad, TD representing Carlow-Kilkenny from 1927 to 1931.
- 28 October - Patrick Glynn, Attorney General of Australia and Minister for External Affairs (b.1855).
- 27 December - Alfred Perceval Graves, writer (b.1846).
Full date unknown
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