Arts and Literature
- 30 April - Ireland hosts the Eurovision Song Contest.
- September - Television channel RTÉ 2 is relaunched as Network 2.
- 11 October - Comedy series Nighthawks is first broadcast on RTÉ's Network 2.
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“So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.”
—William Morris (1834–1896)
“There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)