Arts and Literature
- Iris Murdoch is awarded the Booker Prize for her novel The Sea, The Sea.
- Peter Sheridan is awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
- Seán Ó Ríordáin's posthumous poetry collection Tar éis mo Bháis is published.
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