Arts and Literature
- Cork Opera House fully rebuilt and reopened.
- Publication of John McGahern's first novel The Barracks.
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“No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept.... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.”
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