Arts and Literature
- May 3 - Ireland stages the Eurovision Song Contest, hosted by Ronan Keating and Carrie Crowley. The Irish entry, Mysterious Woman sung by Marc Roberts, comes second.
- November 24 - First episode of A Scare at Bedtime airs.
- Raidió Teilifís Éireann rebrands its television Network 2 as N2.
- John Banville's novel The Untouchable is published.
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“Poetry, and Picture, are Arts of a like nature; and both are busie about imitation. It was excellently said of Plutarch, Poetry was a speaking Picture, and Picture a mute Poesie. For they both invent, faine, and devise many things, and accommodate all they invent to the use, and service of nature. Yet of the two, the Pen is more noble, than the Pencill. For that can speake to the Understanding; the other, but to the Sense.”
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