first novel, Storm, is published. Liam O'Flaherty's novel The Informer, set in Dublin in the aftermath of the Civil War, is published and wins the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in fiction. Sport Football League of Ireland Winners: Shamrock Rovers FAI Cup Winners: Shamrock Rovers 2–1 Shelbourne Gaelic Games The All-Ireland Champions are Tipperary (hurling) and Galway (football) Yachting First Fastnet Race Births 3 January – Maureen Potter, singer, actress and comedian (died 2004). 25 January – Willie John Daly, Cork hurler. 1 May – Edmund Fitzgibbon, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Warri in Nigeria (died 2010). 17 May – Michael Herbert, Fianna Fáil TD and MEP (died 2006). 27 May – Martin O'Toole, Fianna Fáil TD and senator (died 2013). 2 June – Mick Ryan, Tipperary hurler (died 2007). 3 June – Tom Scannell, soccer player (died 1993). 16 June – Ian Anderson, President of the Legislative Council (Isle of Man) (died 2005). 16 July – Joe Lynch, actor (died 2001). 20 July – Martin Molony, jockey (died 2017). 26 August – Thomas Finnegan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Killala, 1987–2002 (died 2011). 28 August – Robin Lawler, soccer player (died 1981). 1 September – Michael J. Cleary, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Banjul, Gambia (died 2020). 3 September – Maureen Haughey, née Lemass, wife of Charles Haughey (died 2017). 4 September – Nick O'Donnell, Kilkenny and Wexford hurler (died 1988). 15 September – Jerry Cronin, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP (died 1990). 16 September – Charles Haughey, Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil (died 2006). 1 October – Brendan O'Dowda, tenor singer (died 2002). 18 October George Colley, Fianna Fáil TD, holder of six Ministerial posts including Tánaiste (died 1983). Jimmy Reardon, Olympic sprinter (died 2019). 30 October – Reg Ryan, soccer player (died 1997). 26 November – Ciarán Mac Mathúna, broadcaster and music collector (died 2009). 22 December – Lewis Glucksman, businessman, philanthropist, patron of the Lewis Glucksman Gallery at UCC (died 2006). Deaths 17 February – George Sigerson, surgeon and writer, member of the 1922 Seanad. 7 June – Matt Talbot, manual labourer and ascetic (born 1856). 22 June – Matthew Gibney, priest, in 1880 in Australia, tended the seemingly seriously wounded Ned Kelly, heard his confession and gave him the last rites (born 1835). 27 October – Darrell Figgis, writer, Sinn Féin activist and independent politician (born 1882). 28 October