Arts and Literature
- 29 September - Dublin's Focus Theatre opens its doors for the first time.
- The Censorship of Publications Act provides for prohibition orders made on the grounds of indecency or obscenity to expire after a period of twelve years.
- New Writers Press founded by poets Michael Smith and Trevor Joyce with Smith's wife Irene in Dublin to publish poetry.
- First publication of Flann O'Brien's novel The Third Policeman (written 1939–40), posthumously in London.
- Edward Delaney's bronze statue Wolfe Tone completed.
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