(born in 1904). 2 July – George Edward Pugin Meldon, cricketer (born in 1875). 20 July – Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, Unionist politician (born in 1880). 13 September – Sara Allgood, actress (born in 1879). 13 October – Hugh Godley, 2nd Baron Kilbracken, barrister (born in 1877). 2 November – George Bernard Shaw, playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) (born in 1856). 9 November – Diarmuid Lynch, member of 1st Dáil representing Cork South-East. 1 December – E. J. Moeran, composer (born in 1894). 26 December – James Stephens, novelist and poet (born in 1882). Full date unknown Patrick Keohane, navy officer, member of Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic Terra Nova Expedition (born in 1879). James Sleator, painter (born in 1889). References 1950s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 20th century in Ireland