Deaths
- 30 January - John McDonald, soldier and Congressman in America (born 1837).
- 6 May - Thomas Joseph Carr, second Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia (born 1839).
- 10 May - Daniel Joseph Sheehan, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps pilot in World War I, killed in action (born 1894).
- 9 June - William Hoey Kearney Redmond, nationalist politician, barrister, brother of John Redmond, killed in Battle of Messines (born 1861).
- 31 July - Francis Ledwidge, poet, killed in action during World War I (born 1887).
- 25 September - Thomas Ashe, took part in the Easter Rising, died following forcible feeding while on hunger strike (born 1885).
- 4 October - Dave Gallaher, rugby player for New Zealand, killed at Passchendaele (born 1873).
- 6 December - James Samuel Emerson, soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 on the Hindenburg Line north of La Vacquerie, France (born 1895).
- 12 December - Charles Christopher Bowen, politician in New Zealand (born 1830).
- 27 December - William John Hennessy, artist (born 1839).
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