and Cabinet minister (died 1970). 5 April – Leo Rowsome, teacher, player, and maker of uilleann pipes (died 1970). 12 April – Paddy Collins, Cork hurler (died 1995). 25 May – Ewart Milne, poet (died 1987). 8 June – Harry Duggan, association football player (died 1968). 17 July – Dinny Barry-Murphy, Cork hurler (died 1973). 18 July – Charles Hill, cricketer (died 1982). 5 August – Achey Kelly, cricketer (died 1961). 17 September – Frank O'Connor, short story writer and memoirist (died 1966). 6 October – Ernest Walton, physicist, 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics (died 1995). 23 October – Patrick Cogan, Independent TD (died 1977). 1 November – Max Adrian, actor (died 1973). 18 December – Harry Forsyth, cricketer (died 2004). Undated Leo Maguire, singer, songwriter and radio broadcaster (died 1985). Stanley Woods, motor cycle racer, with 29 Grand Prix wins and 10 Isle of Man TT wins (died 1993). Deaths 9 February – Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist and Australian colonial politician (born 1816). 5 April – Mary Anne Sadlier, novelist (born 1820). 24 April – Walter Osborne, impressionist painter (born 1859). 27 April – William Travers, lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist in New Zealand (born 1819). 25 July – John Michael Clancy, Democratic Party United States Representative from New York (born 1837). 31 August – Charles O'Hea, Catholic Priest, baptised Ned Kelly and ministered to him before he was hanged in 1880 (born c. 1814). 12 September – Maxwell Henry Close, geologist (born 1822). 22 October – William Edward Hartpole Lecky, historian (born 1838). 24 October – James Adams (chaplain), recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in Afghanistan (1879) (born 1839). References 1900s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 20th century in Ireland Ireland