Deaths
- 9 March – Frederick Jeremiah Edwards, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 at Thiepval, France (born 1894).
- 20 March – Brendan Behan, poet, novelist and playwright (born 1923).
- 29 April – J. M. Kerrigan, actor (born 1884).
- 18 September – Seán O'Casey, dramatist and memoirist (born 1880).
- 27 September – Michael Donnellan, founder of Clann na Talmhan and TD (born 1900).
- 24 November – William O'Dwyer, judge, District Attorney and 100th Mayor of New York City (born 1890).
- November – Percy Redfern Creed, soldier, sportsman and writer (born 1874).
- 31 December – Daniel Corkery, writer, teacher and Fianna Fáil Senator (born 1878).
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“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)