Arts and Literature
- 21 April - Sitcom Father Ted, written by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan and starring Dermot Morgan and Ardal O'Hanlon, first airs on Channel 4 television in the United Kingdom.
- 13 May - Ireland stages the Eurovision Song Contest.
- 5 October - Seamus Heaney is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Sebastian Barry's play The Steward of Christendom is produced for the first time.
- Emma Donoghue's novel Hood is published.
- Anne Enright's first novel The Wig My Father Wore is published.
- Patrick McCabe's novel The Dead School is published.
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