Arts and Literature
- September 23 - The Irish Film Institute opens the Irish Film Centre in Dublin.
- Vincent Woods' play At the Black Pig's Dyke is performed by the Druid Theatre Company.
- Samuel Beckett's first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, is finally published.
- Maeve Binchy's novel The Copper Beech is published.
- Eugene McCabe's novel Death and Nightingales is published.
- Patrick McCabe's novel The Butcher Boy is published.
- Colm Tóibín's novel The Heather Blazing is published.
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