Arts and Literature
- July 30–September 22 - The Abbey Theatre company, homeless following the fire at the theatre, performs a season at the Rupert Guinness Hall in the Guinness Brewery before moving to the Queen's Theatre, Dublin.
- October 21–November 4 - First Wexford "Festival of Music and the Arts", predecessor of Wexford Festival Opera.
- First national festival of the folk music of Ireland held in Mullingar.
- Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann established in Mullingar by a group of uilleann pipers to promote the folk music and language of Ireland.
- Samuel Beckett's novel Molloy is published in French.
- Sinéad de Valera's collection for children The Emerald Ring and Other Irish Fairy Stories is published.
- Louis le Brocquy paints A Family.
- Daniel O'Neill paints Knockalla Hills, Donegal and Western Landscape.
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