Deaths
- 24 March - Robert Johnston, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 at the Battle of Elandslaagte, South Africa (born 1872).
- 22 April - John T. McNicholas, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati and founder of the Catholic Legion of Decency (born 1877).
- 10 May - Art O'Connor, Sinn Féin MP, member of 1st Dáil, Cabinet Minister, lawyer and judge (born 1888).
- 11 June - Stephen Gwynn, journalist, writer, poet and Nationalist politician (born 1864).
- 25 June - Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, writer (born 1904).
- 2 July - George Edward Pugin Meldon, cricketer (born 1875).
- 20 July - Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, Unionist politician (born 1880).
- 13 September - Sara Allgood, actress (born 1879).
- 13 October - Hugh Godley, 2nd Baron Kilbracken, barrister (born 1877).
- 2 November - George Bernard Shaw, playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) (born 1856).
- 9 November - Diarmuid Lynch, member of 1st Dáil representing Cork South–East.
- 1 December - E. J. Moeran, composer (born 1894).
- 26 December - James Stephens, novelist and poet (born 1882).
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“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)