Paddy Power, Fianna Fáil TD for Kildare and Cabinet Minister (died 2013). 1 December - Denis Donoghue, literary critic (died 2021). 17 December – Seán Purcell, Galway Gaelic footballer (died 2005). Full date unknown Paddy Barry, Cork hurler (died 2000). Seán South, IRA leader (fatally wounded during attack on Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Brookeborough 1957). Deaths 20 January – John de Robeck, admiral in the British Navy (born 1862). 25 February – William O'Brien, nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher and author (born 1852). 17 March – Lawrence Bulger, international rugby union player (born 1875). 4 April – Alan Joseph Adamson, politician in Canada (born 1857). 18 May – Standish James O'Grady, author, journalist, historian (born 1846). 22 July – Lawrence E. McGann, Democrat U.S. Representative from Illinois (born 1852). 6 August – W. H. Grattan Flood, musicologist and historian (born 1857). 29 September – John Devoy, Fenian organiser, exiled to America (born 1842). 6 October – Pádraic Ó Conaire, journalist and writer (born 1882). 26 October – Michael McCarthy, nationalist anticlerical lawyer (died 1928 in Ireland). 25 November – J. J. Clancy, Member of Parliament, barrister and journalist (born 1847). Full date unknown F. Elrington Ball, author and legal historian (born 1863). References 1920s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 20th century in Ireland