Arts and Literature
- July 12 - Première of the romantic comedy-drama film The Quiet Man, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, set in 1930s Ireland and with much location filming around Cong, County Mayo.
- October 17 - Samuel Beckett's play Waiting For Godot is published in French as En attendant Godot by Les Éditions de Minuit in Paris.
- The novelist Elizabeth Bowen settles in her ancestral home, Bowen's Court at Farahy, near Kildorrery, County Cork.
- Louis le Brocquy's 1951 painting A Family sparks controversy when a group of art patrons offer to present it to the Dublin Municipal Gallery and it is rejected by the Art Advisory Committee on the grounds of incompetence.
- Daniel O'Neill paints Birth.
- Seán Ó Ríordáin publishes his first book of poetry Eireaball Spideoige.
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