Aldridge, Irish international soccer player, in England of Irish descent 11 November – John Devine, soccer player 21 November – Eddie O'Sullivan, head coach of the Ireland national rugby union team Full date unknown Noel Hill, concertina player Glenn Meade, fiction writer Deaths 1 January – Richard Hayes, doctor and Sinn Féin MP (born 1878) 17 January – Michael Donohoe, Irish-born American politician, Democratic U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (born 1864) 24 March – Seamus O'Sullivan, poet and editor (born 1879) 29 March – Jimmy Archer, Major League baseball player (born 1883) 24 April – Mabel McConnell Fitzgerald, republican, suffragette and socialist (born 1884] 6 July – John Esmonde, soldier, Fine Gael TD (born 1893) 28 July – Dick Walsh, Kilkenny hurler (born 1878) 13 August – James Lennon, member of 1st Dáil representing the County Carlow constituency 24 August – Paul Henry, artist (born 1876) 9 September – Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh, actress and Republican activist (born 1883) 15 October – Lennox Robinson, dramatist, poet and theatre director and producer (born 1886) 2 December – Alan McKibbin, businessman and Ulster Unionist Party MP (born 1892) 8 December – Peig Sayers (Máiréad Ó Gaoithín), seanachaí (traditional storyteller) (born 1873) 19 December – Arthur Gore, 6th Earl of Arran, Anglo-Irish peer and soldier (born 1868) 23 December – Dorothy Macardle, author and historian (born 1889) 24 December – Martin O'Brien, hurler (Thurles Sarsfields, Tipperary) (born 1885) References 1950s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 20th century in Ireland