Arts and Literature
- The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature is awarded to Desmond Hogan.
- Publication of Niall Ó Dónaill's Irish-English dictionary Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla.
Read more about this topic: 1977 In Ireland
Famous quotes containing the words arts and, arts and/or literature:
“I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.”
—Daniel Webster (1782–1852)
“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)