Cross for gallantry in 1940 near Dunkirk in France (died 1995). 8 August – Billy Behan, association football player and football scout (died 1991). 18 September – Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, ufologist and politician (died 1995). 24 September – James Gill, cricketer (died 2000). 5 October – Brian O'Nolan, also known as Myles na gCopaleen, novelist, satirist, and humourist (died 1966). 11 October – Fred Daly, golfer (died 1990). 19 October – John de Courcy Ireland, maritime historian and political activist (died 2006). 26 December – John 'Tull' Dunne, Gaelic footballer, coach and administrator (died 1990). Full date unknown Jimmy Kelly, association football player (died 1970). Con Lehane, nationalist, member of the IRA Army Council, and Dáil representative (died 1983). Deaths 3 February – Robert Tressell, writer and author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (born 1870). 1 August – Dudley Stagpoole, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1863 in New Zealand (born 1838). 16 August – Patrick Francis Moran, third Archbishop of Sydney (born 1830). 5 September – Katherine Cecil Thurston, novelist (born 1875). 23 September – Daniel O'Reilly, U.S. Representative from New York (born 1838). References 1910s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 20th century in Ireland Ireland