London. Seumas O'Kelly's novella The Golden Barque and The Weaver's Grave are published posthumously. 'An Seabhac' (Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha)'s semi-autobiographical comic story Jimín Mháire Thaidhg is published. Sport Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) All Ireland Senior Hurling Final Cork 6–4 d Dublin 2–4 All Ireland Senior Football Final Kildare 2–5 d Galway 0–1 Football Irish League Winners: Belfast Celtic Irish Cup Winners: Linfield 2–1 Glentoran International 25 October Ireland 1–1 England (in Belfast) Births 26 January – Tom Aherne, soccer player (died 1999) 30 January – Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland (died 1999) 23 February – Johnny Carey, soccer player and manager (died 1995) 18 March – G. E. M. Anscombe, analytic philosopher (died 2001) 3 April – Myles McKeon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Bunbury, Australia (died 2016) 3 April – Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, poet and writer (died 1982) 9 April – Gordon Lambert, art collector, member of the Seanad (died 2005) 1 May – Dan O'Herlihy, actor (died 2005) 5 May – Séamus Ennis, Uilleann piper, singer and folk-song collector (died 1982) 9 May – Joseph Bermingham, Irish Labour Party TD (died 1995) 9 May – Anne Yeats, painter and stage designer (died 2001) 8 June – Constantine Fitzgibbon, historian and novelist (died 1983) 10 June – Kevin O'Flanagan, physician, rugby and soccer player and Olympic official (died 2006) 7 July – Fred Kiernan, soccer player (died 1981) 15 July – Iris Murdoch, novelist and philosopher (died 1999) 21 July – Roderick Gill, cricketer (died 1983) 1 August – Dave Creedon, Cork hurler (died 2007) 15 August – Benedict Kiely, writer, broadcaster and journalist (died 2007) 15 September – Michael ffrench-O'Carroll, Independent TD and Senator (died 2007) 2 October – Sean 'ac Donncha, traditional singer (died 1996) 25 October – Jimmy Rudd, soccer player (died 1985) 27 October – James Joseph Magennis, British Royal Navy submariner awarded Victoria Cross for taking part in Operation Struggle in 1945 (died 1986) 1 November – Gerard Slevin, Chief Herald of Ireland (died 1997) 5 November – Seamus Twomey, twice chief of staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (died 1989) 15 November – Tony Reddin, Tipperary hurler (died 2015) 11 December – Digby McLaren, geologist and palaeontologist in Canada (died 2004) Full date unknown Vivian Mercier, literary critic (died 1989) J. J. O'Reilly, Cavan Gaelic footballer (died 1952) Deaths 9 January – John Danaher, soldier, recipient of the