2000 in Ireland - Arts and Literature

Arts and Literature

  • 31 October – Boyband Westlife score their seventh straight UK number one, becoming the only artists in UK chart history to achieve this.
  • John Banville's novel Eclipse is published.
  • Anne Enright's novel What Are You Like? is published.

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