1897 in Ireland - Births

Births

  • 1 March - Robert Bowers, cricketer (died 1956).
  • 23 March - John Lighton Synge, mathematician and physicist (died 1995).
  • 4 April - Francis Evans, British diplomat (died 1983).
  • 26 May - Ernie O'Malley, prominent officer in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and on anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War and a writer (died 1957).
  • 10 June - Moss (Maurice) Twomey, chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (died 1978).
  • 1 July - Tom Barry, guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence (died 1980).
  • 1 September - Andy Kennedy, footballer (died 1963).
  • 26 November - Thomas Derrig, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister (died 1956).
  • 3 December - Kate O'Brien, novelist (died 1974).

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