Arts and Literature
- U2 release The Joshua Tree album to popular international acclaim.
- Maeve Binchy's novel Firefly Summer is published.
- Roddy Doyle publishes his first novel, The Commitments, first of The Barrytown Trilogy, about a group of unemployed young people in the north side of Dublin who start a soul band.
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