The Arts
- 1 February—It is announced that two of three Waterstone's bookshops in Dublin are to close.
- 11 February—The Eurosong 2011 competition is held in Dublin.
- 12 February—The 8th Irish Film and Television Awards are held at Dublin's Convention Centre.
- 12 April—Sebastian Barry is inducted into the Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame by the president, Mary McAleese.
- 26 May—John Banville wins the Kafka Prize for literature.
- 22—26 June—Celtic Fringe Festival held in north Sligo.
- October—Lucy Caldwell is awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
- 3 November—Niall Tóibín is honoured with the Irish Film and Television Academy's (IFTA) Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony at the Irish Film Institute.
- Sorj Chalandon's novel Retour à Killybegs is published.
- Gene Kerrigan's crime novel The Rage is published.
- Seán Ó Ríordáin's collected poems, Na Dánta, are published.
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“These modern ingenious sciences and arts do not affect me as those more venerable arts of hunting and fishing, and even of husbandry in its primitive and simple form; as ancient and honorable trades as the sun and moon and winds pursue, coeval with the faculties of man, and invented when these were invented. We do not know their John Gutenberg, or Richard Arkwright, though the poets would fain make them to have been gradually learned and taught.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)