Arts and Literature
See also: 2008 in Irish music- 1 December – Raidió Teilifís Éireann's digital radio revolution begins with the official launch of five new digital radio and broadband services which have been on trial for twenty months. They are RTÉ Choice, a sister speech station to RTÉ Radio 1; easy listening and ambient service RTÉ Chill; RTÉ Junior, which is aimed at two to ten-year-olds; the dance-based RTÉ Pulse; and RTÉ 2XM, a sister station to the rock and indie components of RTÉ 2fm.
- Sorj Chalandon's novel Mon traître is published.
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“I should say that the most prominent scientific men of our country, and perhaps of this age, are either serving the arts and not pure science, or are performing faithful but quite subordinate labors in particular departments. They make no steady and systematic approaches to the central fact.... There is wanting constant and accurate observation with enough of theory to direct and discipline it. But, above all, there is wanting genius.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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Illusion dwells forever with the wave.”
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