Arts and Literature
- 28 February – Actor and comedian Dermot Morgan dies suddenly in London.
- 24 December – Gay Byrne broadcasts his final radio show, from St Stephen's Green.
- John Montague becomes the first occupant of the Ireland Chair of Poetry.
- Garry Hynes becomes the first woman to win a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (The Beauty Queen of Leenane) on Broadway.
- Maeve Binchy's novel Tara Road is published.
- Brendan Graham's Great Famine novel The Whitest Flower is published.
- Patrick McCabe's novel The Butcher Boy is published.
- Terence Dolan's A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English is published.
Read more about this topic: 1998 In Ireland
Famous quotes containing the words arts and, arts and/or literature:
“As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.”
—Eliza Farnham (1815–1864)
“The literature of the poor, the feelings of the child, the philosophy of the street, the meaning of household life, are the topics of the time. It is a great stride. It is a sign,—is it not? of new vigor, when the extremities are made active, when currents of warm life run into the hands and the feet.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)