13 February – Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Irish language writer (died 1970). 13 April – Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize in Literature, playwright, novelist, and poet (died 1989). 24 May – John Joseph Scanlan, second Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu (died 1997). 1 July – Ivan Neill, major and Unionist politician (died 2001 in Northern Ireland). 19 July – Hugh T. Baker, cricketer (died 1989). 11 August – James Graham, cricketer (died 1942). 28 September – William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel, peer and Labour party politician (died 1997). 28 September – Lawrence Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse (d. c.1979). 22 October – Charles Lynch, pianist (died 1984). 10 December – Padraig Marrinan, artist (died 1975 in Northern Ireland). Deaths 2 March – Ellen Mary Clerke, author, journalist, poet, and science writer (born 1840). 30 May – Michael Davitt, republican, nationalist agrarian agitator, social campaigner, labour leader, and Irish National Land League founder (born 1846). 7 July – John Drummond, early settler and explorer in Western Australia, first Inspector of Native Police there (born 1816). 21 October – Edward James Saunderson, leader of the Irish Unionist Party in the British House of Commons (born 1837). 10 November – John Richardson Wigham, lighting engineer (born 1829 in Scotland). 27 November – Michael Cusack, founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association (born 1847). References 1900s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 20th century in Ireland Ireland