The Great Hunger is published by the Cuala Press. Maura Laverty's novel Never No More is published, having been serialised in The Bell. Seán Ó Súilleabháin's A Handbook of Irish Folklore is published for the Folklore of Ireland Society in Dublin. Sport Football League of Ireland Winners: Cork United FAI Cup Winners: Dundalk 2 – 2, 3 – 1 Cork United. Golf Irish Open is not played due to The Emergency. Births 12 January John Moore, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Bauchi, Nigeria. Hilary Weston, 26th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (from 1997 to 2002). 16 January – Tony Doyle, actor (died 2000). 18 January – Eric Barber, soccer player. 1 February – P. J. Mara, political adviser and senator (died 2016). 12 February – Robert Ellison, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Banjul, Gambia. 22 April – Aengus Fanning, journalist and editor (d. 2012). 15 May – Pádraic McCormack, Fine Gael TD for Galway West. May – Enda Colleran, Gaelic footballer (died 2004). 28 July – John Bowman, historian and broadcaster. 1 August – Ned O'Keeffe, Independent TD for Cork East, originally Fianna Fáil. 18 August – Tommy Carroll, soccer player. 25 August – Pat Ingoldsby, television presenter, poet. 30 August – Jonathan Aitken, Conservative Member of Parliament (UK), perjurer and Anglican priest. 17 September – Des Lynam, sportscaster and British television personality. 4 October – Frank Stagg, Provisional Irish Republican Army member (died of hunger strike 1976 in Wakefield Prison). 20 October – Philomena Begley, country music singer. 24 October – Frank Delaney, novelist, journalist and broadcaster (died 2017). 28 November – Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, poet. 24 December – Anthony Clare, psychiatrist and broadcaster (died 2007). Full date unknown Jackie Gilroy, Gaelic footballer (died 2007). Padraig O'Malley, peacemaker, professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston and writer. Dermot O'Reilly, musician, producer and songwriter in Canada (died 2007). Ted Tynan, Workers' Party councillor in Cork. Macdara Woods, poet (died 2018). Deaths 1 January – John Meredith, Australian Army Brigadier General (born 1864). 8 January – Thomas Hughes, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 at Guillemont, France (born 1885). 14 January – James Graham, cricketer (born 1906). 7 February – Bishop Patrick McKenna, Bishop of Clogher, 1909–1942 (born 1868). 8 April – Philip Meldon, cricketer (died 1874). 20 April – Thomas Kelly, founding member of Sinn Féin, member of 1st Dáil (Pro Treaty), later