2011). 1 August – W. R. Rodgers, writer, broadcaster, teacher, and Presbyterian minister (died 1969). 4 October – Paddy Moore, association football player (died 1951). 7 October – Michael O'Neill, nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (MP) (died 1976). 20 October – James Patrick Scully, awarded George Cross for valour in 1941 in Liverpool in rescuing people from a bomb damaged building. 28 October – Francis Bacon, painter (died 1992). 4 November – Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet, cricketer, squash player, and art collector (died 1982). 29 November – James Auchmuty, historian (died 1981). Full date unknown Muriel Brandt, artist (died 1981 in Northern Ireland). Jack Stanley Gibson, surgeon and writer (died 2005). Gabriel Hayes, sculptor, designer of Irish coins (died 1978). W. R. Rodgers, poet and writer (died 1969 in Northern Ireland). Deaths 10 January – John Conness, United States Senator from California 1863–1869 (born 1821). 4 February – James Lynam Molloy, poet, songwriter, and composer (born 1837). 3 March – Bishop Richard Owens, Bishop of Clogher 1894–1909 (born 1840). 19 March – Charles Guilfoyle Doran, Clerk of Works at St Colman's Cathedral, Cobh (born 1835). 24 March – William Lundon, Irish Parliamentary Party MP (born 1839). 24 March – John Millington Synge, author and playwright (Hodgkin's disease). 4 April – Sir Theobald Burke, 13th Baronet (born 1833). 22 May – Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet, Liberal Party MP (born 1839). 3 June – Charlotte Grace O'Brien, political and social activist, writer, and plant collector (born 1845). 15 July – George Tyrrell, expelled Jesuit priest and Modernist Catholic scholar (born 1861). 1 December – William Joseph Corbet, nationalist politician and MP (born 1824). References 1900s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 20th century in Ireland Ireland