Arts and Literature
- W. B. Yeats' poem "September 1913" is published in The Irish Times during the Dublin Lock-out. His Poems Written in Discouragement is also published this year.
- Katharine Tynan's Irish Poems is published.
- English music hall comedian Arthur Lucan meets and marries (25 November) 16-year-old actress Kitty McShane in Dublin.
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