Arts and Literature
- Maeve Binchy's first novel Light a Penny Candle is published.
- Frank McGuinness's first play, Factory Girls, is produced at the Peacock, Dublin.
- Medbh McGuckian's poetry collection The Flower Master is published.
- Medbh McGuckian is awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, with a special prize to Seán Ó Tuama and Thomas Kinsella for An Duanaire / Poems of the Dispossessed.
- Graham Reid's play The Hidden Curriculum is produced.
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