1932 in Ireland - Arts and Literature

Arts and Literature

  • W. B. Yeats leases Riversdale house in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham and publishes Words for Music Perhaps, and Other Poems.
  • Seán Ó Faoláin publishes his first collection, Midsummer Night Madness and Other Stories, in London.
  • Nineteen Irish writers led by Yeats and George Bernard Shaw form an Academy of Irish Letters primarily to oppose the Censorship of Publications Board.
  • The first sound film made in Ireland, The Voice of Ireland, is directed by Col. Victor Haddick.
  • American dancer Adele Astaire marries English aristocrat Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish (May 9) and they settle at Lismore Castle, one of the Devonshire family seats.

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