Arts and Literature
- November 10 - Release of the film My Left Foot: the story of Christy Brown directed by Jim Sheridan. Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker win Academy Awards for their performances; others featured include Ray McAnally, Fiona Shaw, Julie Hale, Cyril Cusack and Kirsten Sheridan.
- John Banville's novel The Book of Evidence is published.
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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.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)