[edit] Events [edit] Arts and literature - 5 May Seamus Ennis born. Irish player of uilleann pipes, singer, and folk-song collector.
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- 25 October Ireland 1 - 1 England (in Belfast)[1]
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- Winners: Belfast Celtic
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- Winners: Linfield 2 - 1 Glentoran
[edit] Births [edit] January to June - 26 January - Tom Aherne, soccer player (d.1999).
- 30 January - Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland (d.1999).
- 23 February - Johnny Carey, soccer player and manager (d.1995).
- 18 March - G. E. M. Anscombe, analytic philosopher (d.2001).
- 3 April - Myles McKeon, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Bunbury, Australia.
- 3 April - Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, poet and writer (d.1982).
- 9 April - Gordon Lambert, art collector, member of the Seanad (d.2005).
- 1 May - Dan O'Herlihy, actor (d.2005).
- 5 May - Séamus Ennis, Uilleann piper, singer and folk-song collector (d.1982).
- 9 May - Joseph Bermingham, former Irish Labour Party TD.
- 9 May - Anne Yeats, painter and stage designer (d.2001).
- 8 June - Constantine Fitzgibbon, historian and novelist (d.1983).
- 10 June - Kevin O'Flanagan, physician, rugby and soccer player and Olympic official (d.2006).
[edit] July to December - 7 July - Fred Kiernan, soccer player (d.1981).
- 15 July - Iris Murdoch, novelist and philosopher (d.1999).
- 21 July - Roderick Gill, cricketer (d.1983).
- 15 August - Benedict Kiely, writer, broadcaster and journalist (d.2007).
- 15 September - Michael ffrench-O'Carroll, Independent TD and Senator (d.2007).
- 25 October - Jimmy Rudd, soccer player (d.1985).
- 27 October - James Joseph Magennis, awarded Victoria Cross for taking part in Operation Struggle in 1945 (d.1986).
- 1 November - Gerard Slevin, former Chief Herald of Ireland.
- 5 November - Seamus Twomey, twice chief of staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (d.1989).
- 11 December - Digby McLaren, geologist and palaeontologist in Canada (d.2004).
[edit] Full date unknown [edit] Deaths - 9 January - John Danaher, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 near Pretoria, South Africa (b.1860).
- 13 February - William Temple, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1863 at Rangiriri, New Zealand (b.1833).
- 21 February - John O'Connor Power, Irish Nationalist politician and MP (b.1846).
- 6 March - Pierce McCan, member of 1st Dáil representing Tipperary East.
- 20 March - William Hone, cricketer (b.1842).
- 30 April - John Pentland Mahaffy, classicist (b.1839).
- 8 June - Coslett Herbert Waddell, priest and botanist (b.1858).
- 25 June - William Martin Murphy, Nationalist (Irish Parliamentary Party) MP, newspaper proprietor, leader of employer's syndicate in the Dublin Lockout of 1913 (b.1844).
- 25 July - Samuel McCaughey, pastoralist, politician and philanthropist in Australia (b.1835).
- 5 September - Joseph Ivess, member of the New Zealand House of Representatives (b.1844).
- 31 December - Con Lehane, socialist active in the Irish Socialist Republican Party, the Social Democratic Federation, and the Socialist Party of Great Britain (b.1877).
[edit] Full date unknown [edit] References - ^ Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 162. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.
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