Paddy FitzGerald, Cork hurler. Alice Hanratty, painter and printmaker. Paddy Moran, Kilkenny hurler. Denis Murphy, Cork hurler. Éamonn O'Doherty, sculptor (died 2011). Deaths 28 January – W. B. Yeats, poet and dramatist, in France (born 1865). 2 February – Amanda McKittrick Ros, novelist and poet (born 1860). 9 May – Mary Williams, previously Mary, Lady Heath, aviator, athlete and writer (born 1896). 9 June – Owen Moore, actor (born 1886). 28 June – James Charles Dowdall, businessman and independent member of the 1922 Seanad (born 1873). 19 July – John Cassidy, sculptor and painter (born 1860). 20 August – Edward Bulfin, British general during World War I (born 1862). 8 September – Maurice George Moore, soldier and independent member of the 1922 Seanad (born 1854). 15 September – William MacCarthy-Morrogh, cricketer (born 1870). 20 September – Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, astronomer (born 1865). 10 November – Charlotte Despard, suffragist, novelist and Sinn Féin activist (born 1844). 14 December – Samuel Lombard Brown, independent member of 1922 Seanad and barrister (born 1858). References 1930s in Ireland Ireland Independent Ireland in World War II Years of the 20th century in Ireland