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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“A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“[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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