Arts and Literature
- 30 April - Ireland hosts the Eurovision Song Contest.
- September - Television channel RTÉ 2 is relaunched as Network 2.
- 11 October - Comedy series Nighthawks is first broadcast on RTÉ's Network 2.
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Famous quotes containing the words arts and/or literature:
“One man cannot practice many arts with success.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“[The] attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.”
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