1920 in Ireland - Arts and Literature

Arts and Literature

  • May - W. B. Yeats concludes a lecture tour (begun in October 1919) in the United States and returns to settle in Oxford. In this year also he publishes The Second Coming.
  • Hamilton Harty becomes chief conductor of the HallĂ© Orchestra in Manchester.

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