Arts and Literature
- 23 September - The fourth Theatre Royal opens in Dublin.
- The Irish Folklore Commission is set up by the Government under the direction of Séamus Ó Duilearga to study and collect information on folklore and traditions.
- Samuel Beckett publishes his poetry Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates.
- Sinéad de Valera produces her play Cluichidhe na Gaedhilge.
- Oliver St. John Gogarty publishes his first prose work, As I Was Going Down Sackville Street: A Phantasy in Fact.
- Norah Hoult publishes her novel Holy Ireland.
- Louis MacNeice publishes his Poems.
- W. B. Yeats publishes his poetry A Full Moon in March.
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