Arts and Literature
- January - An Túr Gloine, the cooperative studio for stained glass, is established by Sarah Purser in Dublin.
- 8 October - First performance of a play by J. M. Synge, In the Shadow of the Glen, at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin.
- Padraic Colum's Broken Soil is performed by W. G. Fay's Irish National Dramatic Company.
- 'Æ' (George William Russell)'s The Nuts of Knowledge, lyrical poems old and new is published by Elizabeth Yeats's Dun Emer Press at Dundrum, Dublin.
- W. B. Yeats's In the Seven Woods, being poems of the Irish heroic age (including "Adam's Curse", "The King's Threshold" and "The Hour-Glass") is published by his sister's Dun Emer Press; he also publishes his essays Ideas of Good and Evil.
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