Arts and Literature
- May - The Music Association of Ireland is set up by a group of composers (including Brian Boydell, Aloys Fleischmann and Frederick May) and music-lovers to promote classical music in Ireland.
- Brian Boydell's first major success, In Memoriam Mahatma Gandhi, Op. 30, is premiered by the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra under the composer's baton at the Phoenix Hall, Dublin.
- Patrick Kavanagh publishes his novel Tarry Flynn.
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