1940 in Ireland - Arts and Literature

Arts and Literature

  • The Bell, a liberal monthly magazine of literature and social comment, is established in Dublin by Seán Ó Faoláin.
  • Cecil Day-Lewis publishes Poems in Wartime and his translation of The Georgics of Virgil.
  • Louis MacNeice publishes his poetry The Last Ditch.

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