21 January – the
Northern Ireland Minister for Agriculture meets his Free State counterpart,
Patrick Hogan. The meeting paves the way for co-operation in securing better animal health for livestock.
18 April – census held in both parts of Ireland.[1] The population of the
Irish Free State is 2,972,000; the population of
Northern Ireland is 1,257,000.
20 August – the Irish pilgrimage to the battlefields of France and
Flanders leaves today. Celtic crosses are to be unveiled in memory of the members of the
16th Irish Division who died during
World War I.
The
Gaeltacht – regions with a significant percentage of
Irish language speakers – is officially recognised, following the report of the first Coimisiún na Gaeltachta in the Free State.[2]
8 February –
Seán O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars (set in 1915–16) opens at the
Abbey Theatre, Dublin. On 11 February, the performance is marred by ugly scenes in the audience: one man strikes an actress.
6 September –
Lennox Robinson's play The Big House (set in 1918–23) opens at the Abbey Theatre.
22 November –
George Bernard Shaw, having initially refused to accept the prize money for the
Nobel Prize for Literature, will now accept the money but return it to the Nobel Foundation.
M. J. Farrell's first novel, The Knight of Cheerful Countenance, is published.
W. B. Yeats' Autobiographies is published as volume 6 of his Collected Edition by
Macmillan in London.[3]
^Maguire, Peter A. (Fall 2002). "Language and Landscape in the Connemara Gaeltacht". Journal of Modern Literature. 26 (1): 99–107.
doi:
10.2979/JML.2002.26.1.99.
S2CID161439552.
21 January – the
Northern Ireland Minister for Agriculture meets his Free State counterpart,
Patrick Hogan. The meeting paves the way for co-operation in securing better animal health for livestock.
18 April – census held in both parts of Ireland.[1] The population of the
Irish Free State is 2,972,000; the population of
Northern Ireland is 1,257,000.
20 August – the Irish pilgrimage to the battlefields of France and
Flanders leaves today. Celtic crosses are to be unveiled in memory of the members of the
16th Irish Division who died during
World War I.
The
Gaeltacht – regions with a significant percentage of
Irish language speakers – is officially recognised, following the report of the first Coimisiún na Gaeltachta in the Free State.[2]
8 February –
Seán O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars (set in 1915–16) opens at the
Abbey Theatre, Dublin. On 11 February, the performance is marred by ugly scenes in the audience: one man strikes an actress.
6 September –
Lennox Robinson's play The Big House (set in 1918–23) opens at the Abbey Theatre.
22 November –
George Bernard Shaw, having initially refused to accept the prize money for the
Nobel Prize for Literature, will now accept the money but return it to the Nobel Foundation.
M. J. Farrell's first novel, The Knight of Cheerful Countenance, is published.
W. B. Yeats' Autobiographies is published as volume 6 of his Collected Edition by
Macmillan in London.[3]
^Maguire, Peter A. (Fall 2002). "Language and Landscape in the Connemara Gaeltacht". Journal of Modern Literature. 26 (1): 99–107.
doi:
10.2979/JML.2002.26.1.99.
S2CID161439552.