Deaths
- 28 January - William Butler Yeats, poet and dramatist (born 1865).
- 9 May - Mary Williams, previously Mary, Lady Heath, aviator, athlete and writer (born 1896).
- 9 June - Owen Moore, actor (born 1886).
- 28 June - James Dowdall, Independent member of the 1922 Seanad.
- 19 July - John Cassidy, sculptor and painter (born 1860).
- 20 August - Edward Bulfin, British general during World War I (born 1862).
- 8 September - Maurice George Moore, Independent member of the 1922 Seanad.
- 15 September - William MacCarthy-Morrogh, cricketer (born 1870).
- 20 September - Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, astronomer (born 1865).
- 10 November - Charlotte Despard, suffragist, novelist and Sinn Féin activist (born 1844).
- 14 December - Samuel Lombard Brown, Independent member of 1922 Seanad.
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“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)