Arts and Literature
- 31 October – Boyband Westlife score their seventh straight UK number one, becoming the only artists in UK chart history to achieve this.
- John Banville's novel Eclipse is published.
- Anne Enright's novel What Are You Like? is published.
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“No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept.... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.”
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