Arts and Literature
- March 6 - Establishment of An Gúm as part of the Department of Education by Ernest Blythe, Minister for Finance, to promote publications in Irish.
- George Bernard Shaw is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Peadar O'Donnell's first novel, Storm, is published.
- Liam O'Flaherty's novel The Informer, set in Dublin in the aftermath of the Civil War, is published.
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