Deaths
- 30 January - Patrick Belton, Fianna Fáil and Cumann na nGaedheal TD, President of the anti-communist Irish Christian Front (born 1885).
- 4 April - Henry Guinness, served as an Independent member of the Seanad from 1922.
- 24 July - Kitty Kiernan, fiancée of the assassinated Michael Collins (born 1892).
- 3 October - Dermod O'Brien, painter (born 1865).
- 13 October - Joseph MacRory, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (born 1861).
- 15 October - Eoin MacNeill, scholar, nationalist and revolutionary (born 1867).
- 24 October - Frederick Field, Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord (born 1871).
- 6 December - Edmund Dwyer-Gray, politician and 29th Premier of Tasmania in 1939 (born 1870).
- 20 December - John M. Lyle, architect in Canada (born 1872).
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“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)