Arts and Literature
See also: 2004 in Irish music- 4 March – Dublin: Foundation, an historical novel by Edward Rutherfurd, is published.
- Colm Tóibín's novel The Master 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)
“What ails it, intrinsically, is a dearth of intellectual audacity and of aesthetic passion. Running through it, and characterizing the work of almost every man and woman producing it, there is an unescapable suggestion of the old Puritan suspicion of the fine arts as such—of the doctrine that they offer fit asylum for good citizens only when some ulterior and superior purpose is carried into them.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.”
—James Connolly (1870–1916)