Arts and Literature
- Aosdána established.
- Molly Keane's novel Good Behaviour is published, her first for almost thirty years, and the first under her own name.
- Neil Jordan is awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
- English-born painter Derek Hill donates St Columb's Rectory, near Churchill, County Donegal (his home since 1954), along with a considerable collection including work by Pablo Picasso, Edgar Degas, Georges Braque, Graham Sutherland and Jack Butler Yeats, to the Irish State.
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