Earth Compels. Colin Middleton first exhibits at the Royal Hibernian Academy. Ewart Milne publishes his poetry Forty North Fifty West, with woodcuts by Cecil Salkeld. Kate O'Brien publishes her novel Pray for the Wanderer. W. B. Yeats publishes New Poems, including "Lapis Lazuli". Sport Football League of Ireland Winners: Shamrock Rovers FAI Cup Winners: St James' Gate 2–1 Dundalk Golf Irish Open is won by Bobby Locke (South Africa). Births January to June 4 January – Jim Norton, character actor. 30 January – Mick Lanigan, Fianna Fáil Senator. 2 February John Moriarty, writer and philosopher (died 2007). Detta O'Cathain, Baroness O'Cathain, businesswoman and Conservative politician in Britain (died 2021). 27 March – Owen Dudley Edwards, historian and writer. 4 April – Declan Mulligan, rock guitarist. 29 April – Ray MacSharry, Tánaiste, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and European Commissioner. 2 May – Douglas Goodwin, cricketer. 13 May – Patrick Dineen, cricketer. 15 June – Mary Turner, trade unionist in Britain (died 2017). July to December 2 July – John McDonnell, head coach for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks track team. (died 2021) 15 July – Andy McEvoy, soccer player (died 1994). July – Seán Ó Cionnaith, Workers' Party politician (died 2003). 1 August – Paddy Moloney, traditional musician with The Chieftains (died 2021). 3 August – Terry Wogan, BBC, previously RTÉ, broadcaster (died 2016). 5 October – Frank Patterson, tenor (died 2000). 16 October – Gerry Collins, Fianna Fáil TD for Limerick West, Cabinet Minister and Member of the European Parliament. 29 October – John Kirby, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clonfert. 31 October – Anne Buttimer, geographer (died 2017). 28 December – Frank Kelly, actor (died 2016). Full date unknown John Behan, sculptor. Gerald Davis, artist (died 2005). Pa Dillon, Kilkenny hurler (died 2013). Jim Lane, Irish republican and socialist. Úna O'Connor, camogie player (died 2020). Deaths 24 February – Thomas Gann, doctor, archaeologist and writer (born 1867). 3 June – John Flanagan, three-time Olympic gold medalist in the hammer throw (born 1873). 27 July – Tom Crean, Antarctic explorer and publican (born 1877). 4 August – William Moxley, representative from Illinois' 6th congressional district (born 1851). 8 September – Robert Henry Woods, Irish Unionist MP (born 1865). 21 October – Sir John Purser Griffith, member of the Seanad. 7 November – James Murray Irwin, British Army doctor (born 1858). 12 December – James McNeill, politician and second Governor-General of