Arts and Literature
- September 23 - The Irish Film Institute opens the Irish Film Centre in Dublin.
- Vincent Woods' play At the Black Pig's Dyke is performed by the Druid Theatre Company.
- Samuel Beckett's first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, is finally published.
- Maeve Binchy's novel The Copper Beech is published.
- Eugene McCabe's novel Death and Nightingales is published.
- Patrick McCabe's novel The Butcher Boy is published.
- Colm Tóibín's novel The Heather Blazing is published.
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“I should say that the most prominent scientific men of our country, and perhaps of this age, are either serving the arts and not pure science, or are performing faithful but quite subordinate labors in particular departments. They make no steady and systematic approaches to the central fact.... There is wanting constant and accurate observation with enough of theory to direct and discipline it. But, above all, there is wanting genius.”
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“To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and given them an idea of something better. A better state of one’s feelings or simply the idea of a silence in one’s self that allows one to think or to feel. Which to me is the same.”
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