Deaths
- 1 January - James Clayton Love, member of the 1922 Seanad.
- 17 February - George Sigerson, surgeon and writer, member of the 1922 Seanad.
- 7 June - Matt Talbot, manual labourer and ascetic (born 1856).
- 22 June - Matthew Gibney, priest, in 1880 in Australia, tended the seemingly seriously wounded Ned Kelly, heard his confession and gave him the last rites (born 1835).
- 27 October - Darrell Figgis, writer, Sinn Féin activist and independent politician (born 1882).
- 28 October - George W. Joy, painter (born 1844).
- 4 November - Paddy Hannan, gold prospector whose discovery in 1893 near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia set off a gold rush (born 1840).
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