Deaths
- 28 January - William Butler Yeats, poet and dramatist (born 1865).
- 9 May - Mary Williams, previously Mary, Lady Heath, aviator, athlete and writer (born 1896).
- 9 June - Owen Moore, actor (born 1886).
- 28 June - James Dowdall, Independent member of the 1922 Seanad.
- 19 July - John Cassidy, sculptor and painter (born 1860).
- 20 August - Edward Bulfin, British general during World War I (born 1862).
- 8 September - Maurice George Moore, Independent member of the 1922 Seanad.
- 15 September - William MacCarthy-Morrogh, cricketer (born 1870).
- 20 September - Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, astronomer (born 1865).
- 10 November - Charlotte Despard, suffragist, novelist and Sinn Féin activist (born 1844).
- 14 December - Samuel Lombard Brown, Independent member of 1922 Seanad.
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