Arts and Literature
- Eavan Boland's poetry In Her Own Image is published in the UK.
- Dermot Bolger's poetry The Habit of Flesh is published.
- Shaun Davey's orchestral suite for uilleann pipes The Brendan Voyage is composed.
- Seamus Heaney's Selected Poems 1965–1975 is published in the UK.
- Thomas Kinsella's Poems 1956–1973 is published in the UK.
- Paul Muldoon's poetry Why Brownlee Left is published in the UK.
- Tom Paulin's The Strange Museum, including "Pot Burial" and "Where Art Is a Midwife", is published in the UK.
- Bernard Farrell is awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
- Central Bank of Ireland's new offices in Dublin, designed in brutalist style by Sam Stephenson.
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