Deaths
- 28 January - George Richardson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1859 at Kewane Trans-Gogra, India (born 1831).
- 25 March - Thomas Joseph Crean, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Tygerkloof Spruit, South Africa (born 1873).
- 10 April - Liam Lynch, commanding general of the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army during the Irish Civil War, shot and killed (born 1893).
- 17 April - Laurence Ginnell, nationalist, lawyer and politician, member of 1st Dáil (born 1854).
- 23 April - Seán Etchingham, Sinn Féin politician, member of 1st Dáil, Cabinet Minister.
- 29 April - Robert Carew, 3rd Baron Carew (born 1860).
- 11 June - Herbert Trench, poet (born 1865).
- 16 July - Sydney Mary Thompson, geologist and botanist (born 1847).
- 9 August - O'Moore Creagh, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Kam Dakka, Afghanistan (born 1848).
- 20 October - Thomas MacPartlin, trade union official, elected to 1922 Seanad.
- 9 November - Maurice Healy, lawyer, politician and MP (born 1859).
- 20 November - Denny Barry, Irish Republican, died during hunger strike, shortly after the Irish Civil War (born 1883).
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)