1931 in Ireland - Deaths

Deaths

  • 7 March - Hamilton Lyster Reed, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 at the Battle of Colenso, South Africa (born 1869).
  • 26 March - Timothy Michael Healy, Nationalist politician, journalist, author, barrister and first Governor-General of the Irish Free State (born 1855).
  • 22 March - James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, lawyer, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, first Chairman of Seanad Éireann (born 1851).
  • 2 April - Katharine Tynan, novelist and poet (born 1861).
  • 13 April - William Dowler Morris, mayor of Ottawa (born 1857).
  • 22 April - Patrick Kenny, Independent member of the Seanad for 12 years from 1922. Leas Ceann Comhairle 1928.
  • 25 June - Con Lucid, Major League Baseball player (born 1874).
  • 27 August - Frank Harris, author, editor, journalist and publisher (born 1856).
  • 29 September - William Orpen, painter (born 1878).
  • 18 October - Reginald Clare Hart, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 in the Bazar Valley, Afghanistan (born 1848).
  • 23 October - Peter de Loughry, member of 1922 Seanad, TD representing Carlow–Kilkenny from 1927 to 1931.
  • 28 October - Patrick Glynn, Attorney General of Australia and Minister for External Affairs (born 1855).
  • 27 December - Alfred Perceval Graves, writer (born 1846).

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