1839). 9 March – Martin Fitzgerald, elected to Seanad in 1922 and 1925. 22 April – Robert John McConnell, businessman, baronet and Lord Mayor of Belfast (born 1853). 3 May – Tom Gallaher, tobacco manufacturer (born 1840). 1 June – J. B. Bury, historian, classical scholar and philologist (born 1861). 10 July – Kevin O'Higgins, Minister for Justice, assassinated by the Irish Republican Army (born 1892). 15 July – Constance Markievicz (née Gore-Booth), Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil TD, member of 1st Dáil, Cabinet Minister (born 1868). 22 July – Martin Morris, 2nd Baron Killanin, barrister and politician (born 1867). 4 August – John Dillon, land reform agitator, Irish Home Rule activist, nationalist politician, MP and last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party (in London) (born 1851). 5 August Joseph O'Mara, opera singer (born 1864). Henry Prittie, 4th Baron Dunalley, peer and Lord Lieutenant of County Tipperary 1905–1922 (born 1851). 3 October – Gerald Carew, 5th Baron Carew (born 1860). 7 October – Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, philanthropist and businessman (born 1847). 16 October – Sir Henry Robinson, 1st Baronet, civil servant (born 1857). 22 November – Patrick O'Donnell, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (born 1856). 31 December – Dermot Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo, served in Seanad from 1922 to 1927 (born 1851). References 1920s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 20th century in Ireland