Arts and Literature
- October - First annual Castlebar Song Contest staged in Castlebar, County Mayo
- Seamus Heaney's first poetry collection, Death of a Naturalist
- First English language production of Beckett's Come and Go at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin
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