Arts and Literature
- The Bell, a liberal monthly magazine of literature and social comment, is established in Dublin by Seán Ó Faoláin.
- Cecil Day-Lewis publishes Poems in Wartime and his translation of The Georgics of Virgil.
- Louis MacNeice publishes his poetry The Last Ditch.
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