Arts and Literature
- March 3 - Sean O'Casey's drama Juno and the Paycock opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
- George Moore publishes the novel Peronnik the Fool.
- W. B. Yeats publishes the drama The Cat and the Moon, and Certain Poems.
- Eileen Gray begins work with Jean Badovici on their vacation home E-1027 at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the south of France.
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