1981 in Ireland - Arts and Literature

Arts and Literature

  • Aosdána established.
  • Molly Keane's novel Good Behaviour is published, her first for almost thirty years, and the first under her own name.
  • Neil Jordan is awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
  • English-born painter Derek Hill donates St Columb's Rectory, near Churchill, County Donegal (his home since 1954), along with a considerable collection including work by Pablo Picasso, Edgar Degas, Georges Braque, Graham Sutherland and Jack Butler Yeats, to the Irish State.

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