Arts and Literature
- February 8 - Seán O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars (set in 1915–16) opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. On February 11, the performance is marred by ugly scenes in the audience: one man strikes an actress.
- November 22 - George Bernard Shaw, having initially refused to accept the prize money for the Nobel Prize for Literature, will now accept the money but return it to the Nobel Foundation.
- M. J. Farrell's first novel, The Knight of Cheerful Countenance, is published.
- W. B. Yeats' Autobiographies is published as volume 6 of his Collected Edition by Macmillan in London.
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