1939 in Ireland - Arts and Literature

Arts and Literature

  • March 13 - Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds is published in London.
  • May 4 - James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is published complete in London.
  • July - W. B. Yeats' Last Poems and Two Plays are published posthumously in London.
  • Lord Longford begins a series of Chekhov productions at the Gate Theatre with The Cherry Orchard.
  • Louis MacNeice's Autumn Journal: a poem is published in London.

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