Arts and Literature
- March 13 - Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds is published in London.
- May 4 - James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is published complete in London.
- July - W. B. Yeats' Last Poems and Two Plays are published posthumously in London.
- Lord Longford begins a series of Chekhov productions at the Gate Theatre with The Cherry Orchard.
- Louis MacNeice's Autumn Journal: a poem is published in London.
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