Deaths
- 9 January - John Danaher, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 near Pretoria, South Africa (born 1860).
- 13 February - William Temple, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1863 at Rangiriri, New Zealand (born 1833).
- 21 February - John O'Connor Power, Irish Nationalist politician and MP (born 1846).
- 6 March - Pierce McCan, member of 1st Dáil representing Tipperary East.
- 20 March - William Hone, cricketer (born 1842).
- 30 April - John Pentland Mahaffy, classicist (born 1839).
- 8 June - Coslett Herbert Waddell, priest and botanist (born 1858).
- 25 June - William Martin Murphy, Nationalist (Irish Parliamentary Party) MP, newspaper proprietor, leader of employer's syndicate in the Dublin Lockout of 1913 (born 1844).
- 25 July - Samuel McCaughey, pastoralist, politician and philanthropist in Australia (born 1835).
- 5 September - Joseph Ivess, member of the New Zealand House of Representatives (born 1844).
- 31 December - Con Lehane, socialist active in the Irish Socialist Republican Party, the Social Democratic Federation, and the Socialist Party of Great Britain (born 1877).
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