Arts and Literature
- 30 April - Ireland hosts the Eurovision Song Contest.
- September - Television channel RTÉ 2 is relaunched as Network 2.
- 11 October - Comedy series Nighthawks is first broadcast on RTÉ's Network 2.
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“The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom of many an ancient philosopher.”
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“It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)