Arts and Literature
- 26 January - Large sections of the audience boo the opening performance of J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre.
- 28 January - Another performance of The Playboy of the Western World at the Abbey Theatre is interrupted by the audience who continue to boo, hiss and shout.
- 4 February - In a public debate at the Abbey Theatre, the poet W. B. Yeats denies trying to suppress audience distaste during a performance of The Playboy of the Western World.
- May - Publication of James Joyce's poems Chamber Music.
- Publication of Padraic Colum's poems Wild Earth.
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