Arts and Literature
- August - Anglo-Welsh composer Philip Heseltine begins a year's stay in Ireland.
- W. B. Yeats's play At the Hawk's Well is first performed.
- Austin Clarke's narrative poem The Vengeance of Fionn is published.
- Francis Ledwidge's poems Songs of Peace are published posthumously.
- The first feature film made in Ireland, A Girl of Glenbeigh, starring Kathleen O'Connor, is made by the Film Company of Ireland.
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