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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