games commentator for Radio Telifís Éireann 30 August – Kieran Crotty, Fine Gael TD 9 September – Des Hanafin, Fianna Fáil politician, member of Seanad Éireann (died 2017) 26 September – Joe Sherlock, Labour Party TD (died 2007) 1 October – Richard Harris, actor (died 2002) 5 October - Sean Potts, tin whistle player with The Chieftains 11 October – Joan O'Hara, actress (died 2007) 22 October – Philomena Lynott, entrepreneur and memoirist (died 2019) 23 October – Thomas Flanagan, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of San Antonio (died 2019) 4 November – Gerry Duffy, cricketer 17 November – Brian Lenihan, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister, senator and presidential candidate (died 1995) 15 December – Edna O'Brien, novelist and short story writer Full date unknown Edward Delaney, sculptor George Eogan, archaeologist, member of Seanad Éireann (died 2021) Maeve Kelly, writer Seán Ó Coisdealbha, poet, playwright and actor (died 2006) Bertie Troy, priest, hurler and All-Ireland winning manager with Cork (died 2007) Deaths 26 September – Dick Fitzgerald, Kerry Gaelic footballer (born 1882) 29 September – Bryan Mahon, British Army general, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and Senator (born 1862) 1 October – James Whiteside McCay, Lieutenant General in the Australian Army, member of the Victorian and Australian Parliaments (born 1864) 31 October – Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony, Nationalist politician, barrister and philanthropist (born 1850) 30 November – Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, labor and community organizer, member of the Industrial Workers of the World, and socialist in the United States (born 1830) References External links https://web.archive.org/web/20170524052441/http://www.irishdeathnotices.ie/ Years of the 20th century in Ireland Ireland