Deaths
- 20 April - Michael Manning, carter, convicted of murder and hanged, last person executed in the Republic of Ireland.
- 1 May - James Macmahon, civil servant and businessman, Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1918 to 1922 (born 1865).
- 20 May - Roger Sweetman, barrister-at-law, member of 1st Dáil representing North Wexford .
- 8 July - George Gardiner, boxer (born 1877).
- 16 September - James Douglas, member of the 1922 Seanad.
- 21 October - Thomas V. Honan, merchant, Fianna Fáil member of the Seanad.
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)