the IFA). Gaelic Games The All-Ireland Champions are Limerick (hurling) and Dublin (football) Births 3 January – Eddie Gannon, soccer player (died 1989). 24 January Sybil Connolly, fashion designer (died 1998). Patrick Scott, painter (died 2014). 17 January – Donogh O'Malley, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister (died 1968). 22 February – Cecil King, painter (died 1986). 8 March – James Comyn, Justice of the High Court of England (died 1997). 10 March – Bernard Devlin, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Gibraltar. 21 March – Yaakov Herzog, Dublin-born Israeli diplomat (died 1972). 25 March – John Joe McGirl, chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (died 1988). 14 April – Mona Tyndall, missionary sister and development worker (died 2000). 31 May – Billy Walsh, soccer player and manager (died 2006). 29 June – Desmond Leslie, pilot, filmmaker and writer (died 2001). 23 July – Malachi Martin, Roman Catholic priest and author (died 1999). 27 July – Tom Nolan, Fianna Fáil TD, Minister of State and MEP (died 1992). 22 August – Michael Yeats, Fianna Fáil Seanad member and MEP (died 2007). 8 September – Patrick Flynn, Liberal Party of Canada MP (died 1996). 22 November – Brian Cleeve, writer and television broadcaster (died 2003). 17 December – Alice Glenn, Fine Gael politician (died 2011). 24 December – Gerard Victory, composer (died 1995). Full date unknown Éamonn Young, Cork Gaelic footballer (died 2007). Deaths 5 January – James Rankin, lighthouse keeper in America (born 1844). 21 April – Rosa Mulholland, Lady Gilbert, novelist, short-story writer and poet (born 1841). 28 April – Maurice Moore, Irish republican who fought in the Irish War of Independence, executed (born 1894). 9 June – Sir Henry Bellingham, 4th Baronet, politician and barrister (born 1846). 18 August – Samuel Cleland Davidson, inventor and engineer (born 1846). 9 October – Egerton Bushe Coghill, painter (born 1853). 10 December – George Ashlin, architect (born 1837). Full date unknown James Gogarty, took part in Easter Rising, first known I.R.B. casualty of the Irish War of Independence (born 1890). References External links "Sport in 1921: A tumultuous year at home and abroad", RTÉ. 1920s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 20th century in Ireland