Deaths
- 11 January - Padraic Colum, poet, novelist and dramatist (born 1881).
- 18 January - Harry Colley, Fianna Fáil TD, Seanad member (born 1891).
- 22 February - Eva McGown, Official Hostess of Fairbanks and Honorary Hostess of Alaska (born 1883).
- 26 April - Mark Deering, Fine Gael TD (born 1900).
- 22 May - Cecil Day-Lewis, poet and writer, British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, (born 1904).
- 28 May - Edward, Duke of Windsor, former King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (born 1894).
- 31 May - Alexander McCabe, Sinn Féin MP, member of 1st Dáil, Cumann na nGaedheal TD (born 1886).
- 19 June - John Blowick, co-founder St Columban's Foreign Mission Society.
- 1 September - Patricia Lynch, children's writer (born 1898).
- 29 September - Kathleen Clarke, widow of Tom Clarke, Sinn Féin and later Fianna Fáil TD, Seanad member, first female Lord Mayor of Dublin (born 1878).
- 10 November - Charles Cuffe, cricketer (born 1914).
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