Ireland Winners: St James's Gate (first ever competition) FAI Cup Winners: St James's Gate 1–1, 1–0 Shamrock Rovers (first ever competition, played at Dalymount Park, Dublin, 17 March; replay at same venue 8 April) Gaelic Games The All-Ireland Champions are Kilkenny (hurling) and Dublin (Gaelic football) Births 9 January – Patrick Denis O'Donnell, military historian, writer and Commandant of the Irish Defence Forces (died 2005). 10 January – Terence Kilmartin, member of the British Special Operations Executive, journalist and translator (died 1991). 26 January – Seán Flanagan, captain of winning Mayo All Ireland football teams in the 1950s, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP (died 1993). 22 February – Joe Carr, amateur golfer (died 2004). 7 March – Paddy Clancy, folk singer (died 1998). 4 April – Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Irish language scholar and academic. 25 April – Tommy Maher, Kilkenny hurler and coach (died 2015). 28 April – Proinsias Ó Maonaigh, fiddle player (died 2006). 4 June – Terry de Valera, youngest son of Éamon de Valera and Sinéad de Valera, solicitor, Taxing Master of Supreme Court until 1992 (died 2007). 14 June – Kevin Roche, architect (died 2019 in the United States). 12 July – Reginald Lyons, cricketer (died 1976). 14 July – Bríd Mahon, folklorist (died 2008). 15 July – Cathal Ó Sándair, writer (born in England; died 1996). 30 July – James Dooge, Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister (died 2010). 8 September – Kathleen Ryan, actress (died 1985). 11 September – Freddie Anderson, playwright and socialist (died 2001). 17 September – Thomas Finlay, judge, politician and barrister (died 2017) 27 September – James Wilson, composer (died 2005). 1 October – Neil Blaney, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP (died 1995). 25 October – Brendan Cauldwell, actor (died 2006). 28 October – Con Murphy, Cork hurler and President of the Gaelic Athletic Association (died 2007). 23 November – Denis Gallagher, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister (died 2001). 24 November – Richard Leech, actor (died 2004). 3 December – Kit Lawlor, soccer player (died 2004). 19 December – Eamonn Andrews, broadcaster (died 1987). Deaths 5 January – Ernest Shackleton, explorer, remembered for his Antarctic expedition of 1914–1916 in the ship Endurance (born 1874). 11 January – Thomas Lough, Liberal politician in Britain, Lord Lieutenant of Cavan (born 1850). 1 February Harry Hammon Lyster, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at