Literature
- Colm Tóibín is awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Award for his novel The Master.
- John Banville wins the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea.
- Academy for Entrepreneurship on Citiwest Business Campus, Dublin, designed by De Blacam & Meagher.
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“Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
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“Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers—such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a façade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)