Trinity College Dublin (died 2000). 23 March – Josef Locke, born Joseph McLaughlin, tenor (died 1999). 27 March – Harry West, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party from 1974 to 1979, Stormont MP, Minister for Agriculture (died 2004). 6 April – Jimmy Phelan, Kilkenny hurler (died 2006). 9 April – Vincent O'Brien, race horse trainer (died 2009). 14 April – Valerie Hobson, actress (died 1998). 29 April – Paddy Ruschitzko, Laois hurler (died 2004). 2 May – Con Cottrell, Cork hurler (died 1982). 5 May – Jimmy Murray, Roscommon Gaelic footballer and All-Ireland winning captain (died 2007). 25 May – Havelock Nelson, composer and pianist (died 1996). 17 June – Michael Moynihan, Labour Party Senator and TD (died 2001). 21 July – Simon Curley, cricketer (died 1989). 15 August – Jack Lynch, Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil (died 1999). 1 October – Cahal Daly, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh (died 2009). 15 October – Kevin Boland, Fianna Fáil TD, served as Minister for Defence, Minister for Social Welfare and Minister for Local Government (died 2001). 1 November – Michael O'Higgins, Fine Gael TD and Senator (died 2005). 3 November – Conor Cruise O'Brien, newspaper editor, author, diplomat, Labour Party Teachta Dála and Cabinet Minister, Member of the European Parliament (died 2008). 11 November – Michael O'Riordan, veteran of the Spanish Civil War and founder of the Communist Party of Ireland (died 2006). 27 December – Jimmy McAlinden, footballer and football manager (died 1993). Full date unknown – Paddy Grace, Kilkenny hurler (died 1984). Deaths 30 January – John McDonald, soldier and Congressman in America (born 1837). 2 April – John Phillips, Member of Parliament for South Longford. 17 April – Jane Barlow, poet and novelist (born 1857). 6 May – Thomas Joseph Carr, second Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia (born 1839). 10 May – Daniel Joseph Sheehan, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps pilot in World War I, killed in action (born 1894). 9 June – William Hoey Kearney Redmond, nationalist politician, barrister, brother of John Redmond, killed in Battle of Messines (born 1861). 31 July – Francis Ledwidge, poet, killed in action during World War I (born 1887). 25 September – Thomas Ashe, took part in the Easter Rising, died following forcible feeding while on hunger strike (born 1885). 4 October – Dave Gallaher, rugby player for New Zealand, killed at Passchendaele (born 1873). 6 December