1896 in Ireland - Births

Births

• 15 February - Arthur Shields, actor (died 1970).
• March - Martin Joseph Sheehan, soldier and Royal Air Service Observer in World War I, killed in action (died 1918).
• 4 April - Sir Osmond Esmonde, 12th Baronet, diplomat and politician (died 1936).
• 24 April - F. R. Higgins, poet and theatre director (died 1941).
• 9 May - Austin Clarke, poet, playwright and writer (died 1974).
• 22 May - Cyril Fagan, astrologer (died 1970).
• 28 August - Liam O'Flaherty, novelist and short story writer (died 1984).
• 17 November - Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary Peirce-Evans, later Mary, Lady Heath, aviator, athlete and writer (died 1939).
• 25 December - Sister Philippa Brazill, nurse in Australia (died 1988).