1957 in Ireland - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1 January - Fergal O'Hanlon, Irish Republican Army member killed with Seán South attacking the Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Brookeborough (born 1936).
  • 1 January - Seán South, IRA leader fatally wounded during an attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Brookeborough (born 1929).
  • 11 January - Anthony Mulvey, editor and Nationalist Party MP (born 1882).
  • 16 February - John Sealy Townsend, mathematical physicist (died 1868).
  • 25 March - Ernie O'Malley, prominent officer in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and on anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War and a writer (born 1897).
  • 28 March - Jack B. Yeats, artist (born 1871).
  • 29 March - John J. O'Kelly, politician, author and publisher, president of the Gaelic League and Sinn Féin (born 1873).
  • 11 April - Freeman Wills Crofts, novelist (born 1879).
  • 23 May - William Meldon, cricketer (born 1879).
  • 1 August - Cathal O'Byrne, singer, poet and writer (born 1867).
  • 22 September - Oliver St. John Gogarty, physician, poet and writer (born 1878).
  • 25 October - Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, writer and dramatist (born 1878).
  • 9 November - Peter O'Connor, athlete (born 1872).
  • 16 November - Seán Moylan, member Irish Volunteers, Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and Seanad Éireann member (born 1888).
  • 6 December - Michael James O'Rourke, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 at Hill 70 near Lens, France (born 1878).

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