Deaths
- 14 January - Barry Fitzgerald, Academy Award winning actor (born 1888).
- 18 January - Joseph Connolly, Fianna Fáil politician (born 1885).
- 4 February - Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford, politician, dramatist and poet (born 1902).
- 12 August - Sir Ion Hamilton Benn, 1st Baronet, businessman and British politician (born 1863).
- 25 September - James Crichton, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1918 at Crèvecœur, France (born 1879).
- 6 October - Achey Kelly, cricketer (born 1903).
- 16 November - T. C. Hammond, Anglican clergyman, Principal of Moore Theological College, Sydney (born 1877).
- 8 December - Séamus Robinson, member of Irish Volunteers and Irish Republican Army (born 1890).
- 24 December - Con Clifford, retired Kerry Gaelic footballer and businessman (born 1887).
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“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
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