1966 in Ireland - Arts and Literature

Arts and Literature

  • October - First annual Castlebar Song Contest staged in Castlebar, County Mayo
  • Seamus Heaney's first poetry collection, Death of a Naturalist
  • First English language production of Beckett's Come and Go at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin

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