Deaths
- 11 January - Padraic Colum, poet, novelist and dramatist (born 1881).
- 18 January - Harry Colley, Fianna Fáil TD, Seanad member (born 1891).
- 22 February - Eva McGown, Official Hostess of Fairbanks and Honorary Hostess of Alaska (born 1883).
- 26 April - Mark Deering, Fine Gael TD (born 1900).
- 22 May - Cecil Day-Lewis, poet and writer, British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, (born 1904).
- 28 May - Edward, Duke of Windsor, former King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (born 1894).
- 31 May - Alexander McCabe, Sinn Féin MP, member of 1st Dáil, Cumann na nGaedheal TD (born 1886).
- 19 June - John Blowick, co-founder St Columban's Foreign Mission Society.
- 1 September - Patricia Lynch, children's writer (born 1898).
- 29 September - Kathleen Clarke, widow of Tom Clarke, Sinn Féin and later Fianna Fáil TD, Seanad member, first female Lord Mayor of Dublin (born 1878).
- 10 November - Charles Cuffe, cricketer (born 1914).
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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)
“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)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)