Arts and Literature
- March - The Telemachus episode of James Joyce's Ulysses is published (in serialised form) in the American journal The Little Review.
- May 25 - James Joyce's Exiles: a play in three acts is published in London.
- August - Anglo-Welsh composer Philip Heseltine concludes a year's stay in Ireland with the writing of a number of songs which will be published under the pseudonym Peter Warlock.
- Francis Ledwidge's poems Last Songs are published posthumously, edited by Lord Dunsany.
Read more about this topic: 1918 In Ireland
Famous quotes containing the words arts and, arts and/or literature:
“No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept.... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“A people’s literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.”
—Edith Hamilton (1867–1963)