1916 in Ireland - Arts and Literature

Arts and Literature

  • September - W. B. Yeats' poem Easter 1916 published.
  • December 29 - James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is first published complete in book form in New York.

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