| 1875 | | Literary Works appearing during the Year |
| | Songs of Killarney by Alfred Percival Graves |
| 1876 | | Literary Works appearing during the Year |
| | Oscar Wilde's first poems From Spring Days to Winter, The Dole of the King's Daughter, Rome Unvisited, San Miniato and By the Arno |
| 1878 | During the Year | Oscar Wilde's poem Ravenna wins the Newdigate Prize |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the Year |
| | Flowers of Passion by George Moore |
| | History of Ireland : The Heroic Period by Standish O’Grady Immaturity the first novel by George Bernard Shaw |
| 1879 | | Literary Works appearing during the Year |
| | Irish Songs and Ballads by Alfred Percival Graves |
| | Early Bardic Literature by Standish O’GradyRise of Historical Criticism by Oscar Wilde |
| 1880 | | Literary Works appearing during the Year |
| | History of Ireland : Cuculain and his Contemporaries by Standish O’Grady Love Among the Artists by George Bernard Shaw |
| Artworks | Glenmalure, Co.Wicklow, Sheep to Pasture by Nathaniel Hone |
| 1881 | | Literary Works appearing during the Year |
| | Pagan Poems by George Moore |
| | History of Ireland : Critical and Philosophical by Standish O’Grady Poems by Oscar Wilde |
| Artworks | The School Room (or Empty Pockets) by James Brenan |
| | The Village Scribe (or The Rent Collector) by James Brenan |
| 1882 | | Literary Works appearing during the Year |
| | The Crisis in Ireland by Standish O’Grady Artworks |
| | A Vegetable Garden With Child in White by Walter Osborne |
| | Douglas Hyde, a portrait by Sarah Purser |
| | Market Day, Finistere by Henry Thaddeus |
| | On the Beach by Henry Thaddeus |
| 1883 | | Literary Works appearing during the Year |
| | Dunster's Life of Goethe translated by Thomas Lyster |
| | A Modern Lover a first novel by George Moore |
| | Cashel Byron's Profession by George Bernard Shaw |
| | An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw |
| | Duchess of Padua a play by Oscar Wilde |
| Artworks | Les Deux Pecheurs by John Lavery |
| | The Last of the 24th, Isandula 879 by Richard Moynan |
| | Home Again by Richard Moynan |
| | Breton Girl by a River by Walter Osborne |
| | Apple Gathering, Quimperlé by Walter Osborne |
| | Rue Jerzual, Dinan by Walter Osborne |
| | Rue de Lapport by Walter Osborne |
| | Street Scene, Quimperle by Walter Osborne |
| | The Intruder by Walter Osborne |
| 1884 | | Literary Works appearing during the Year |
| | A Mummer's Wife a novel by George Moore |
| | Island of Statues a Spenserian verse play by William Butler Yeats |
| Artworks | Goose Girl in a Breton Farmyard by Nathaniel Hill |
| | Sunshine, Brittany by Nathaniel Hill |
| | On the Loing by John Lavery |
| | La p cheuse, Grez sur Loing by John Lavery |
| | Sewing in the Shade by John Lavery |
| | Seaweed Gatherers, Connemara by Aloysius O’Kelly Temptation by Walter Osborne |
| 1885 | February | Dublin University Review founded by Charles Hubert Oldham as, “a monthly magazine of literature, art, and university intelligence”. |
| June 16 | The Dublin Hermetic Society, a secret order devoted to studying oriental religions and writings by the ancient Graeco-Egyption sage, Hermes Trismegistus, is founded by William Butler Yeats, Æ (George Russell), and Charles Johnston. |
| November 21 | The Contemporary Club founded in Dublin. Members include Douglas Hyde, Jack B. Yeats, William Sigerson, Æ (George Russell) and Maud Gonne among others. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the Year |
| | Literature at Nurse or Circulating Morals a work of nonfiction by George Moore |
| | Harlot's House a story by Oscar Wilde |
| | Truth of Masks a story by Oscar Wilde |
| Artworks | The Red Fan by John Lavery |
| | Girls Reading A Newspaper by Richard Moynan |
| | Between the Cliffs, Aberystwyth by Roderic O’Conor Towards Night and Winter by Frank O’Meara Primary Education by Walter Osborne |
| 1886 | July | A Plea for the Irish Language by Douglas Hyde appears in the Dublin University Review. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the Year |
| | Toryism and Tory Democracy by Standish O’Grady A Drama in Muslin a novel by George Moore |
| | Mosada a verse play by William Butler Yeats |
| 1887 | | Literary Works appearing during the Year |
| | Parnell and His Island a nonfiction work by George Moore |
| | A Mere Accident a nonfiction work by George Moore |
| | Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland by Lady Jane Wilde |
| Artworks | Time Flies by William Gerard Barry |
| | Portrait de Bretonne by Roderic O'Conor |
| | Little Boy Asleep by Walter Osborne |
| 1888 | | Literary Works appearing during the Year |
| | The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde |
| | Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by William Butler Yeats |
| | Confessions of a Young Man a nonfiction work by George Moore |
| | Spring Days a novel by George Moore |
| Artworks | A November Morning by Walter Osborne |
| 1889 | | Jim Connell writes The Red Flag, anthem of the British Labour Party, on the train from Charring Cross to New Cross after attending a lecture on socialism at a meeting of the Social Democratic Federation. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the Year |
| | Beside the Fire, a Collection of Irish Gaelic Folk Stories by Douglas Hyde |
| | Father O'Flynn lyrics by Alfred Percival Graves |
| | Red Hugh’s Captivity by Standish O’Grady Mike Fletcher a novel by George Moore |
| | An Irish Cousin by Edith Somerville |
| | Portrait of Mr. WH a story by Oscar Wilde |
| | The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems by William Butler Yeats |
| | Crossways a poem by William Butler Yeats |
| | Decay of Lying a dialog by Oscar Wilde |
| Artworks | Awaiting the Return, Concarneau by Aloysius O'Kelly |
| | Game of Draughts by Aloysius O’Kelly |
| 1890 | February | Oscar Wilde’s The Soul of Man Under Socialism appears in The Fortnightly Review, London. During the Year |
| | The Picture of Dorian Grey, a novel by Oscar Wilde, is serialized in Lippincott's Magazine. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the Year |
| | Myths and Folk Lore of Ireland by Jeremiah Curtin |
| | Beside the Fire: Irish folktales by Douglas Hyde |
| | Morgante the Lesser: His Notorious Life and Wonderful Deeds by Sirius (Edward Martyn) |
| | When We Were Boys a novel by William O’Brien Political Prisoners at Home and Abroad by William Sigerson |
| | Ancient Cures, Charms, and Usages of Ireland by Lady Jane Wilde |
| | Critic as Artist a dialog by Oscar Wilde |
| Artworks | Gathering Seaweed on the Strand, Malahide by Nathaniel Hone |
| | Yachts at Sea by Nathaniel Hone |
| | The Cockle Pickers by Joseph Kavanagh |
| | Young Girl With Sunhat by Walter Osborne |
| | The Gorey Final by Jack B. Yeats |
| | Fleet Street by Jack B. Yeats |
| | Ringsiders by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1891 | | Literary Works appearing during the Year |
| | Vain Fortune a novel by George Moore |
| | Impressions and Opinions nonfiction by George Moore |
| | Quintessence of Ibsenism by George Bernard Shaw |
| | Naboth’s Vineyard by Edith Somerville Notes on Men, Women and Books by Lady Jane Wilde |
| | Intentions by Oscar Wilde |
| | The House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde |
| | Lord Arthur Savile's Crime stories by Oscar Wilde |
| Artworks | Le Vieux Marin by Roderic O’Conor |
| 1892 | February 20 | Oscar Wilde’s play Lady Windermere's Fan opens in London at the St James' Theatre. June |
| | The Lord Chamberlain refuses a license to London’s Palace Theatre for a production of Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé on the grounds that the play introduces Biblical characters. |
| August 16 | The Irish Literary Society is founded with Douglas Hyde as its president. William Sigerson gives the inaugural speech on,"Irish Literature, its Origin, Environment and Influence". |
| November 25 | Douglas Hyde delivers a lecture on The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland to the National Literary Society. |
| December 9 | George Bernard Shaw’s Widowers’ Houses premiers at the Royal Theatre, London. Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Grania by Emily Lawless |
| | Finn and His Companions by Standish O’Grady Through Connemara in a Governess Cart by Edith Somerville |
| Artworks | Field of Corn, Pont Aven by Roderic O'Conor |
| 1893 | April 19 | A Woman of No Importance, a play by Oscar Wilde & produced by Beerbohm Tree, opens in London at The Haymarket Theatre. |
| July 31 | Conradh na Gaeilge (The Gaelic League) is founded by Douglas Hyde. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Amhráin Grádh Chúige (Love Songs of Connacht) by Douglas Hyde |
| | English Poems for Young Students edited by Thomas Lyster |
| | Irish Ideas by William O’BrienThe Bog of Stars short stories by Standish O’GradyWest Irish Folk-Tales and Romance by William Larminie |
| | Modern Painting nonfiction by George Moore |
| | The Rose, a poem by William Butler Yeats |
| | The Celtic Twilight by William Butler Yeats |
| | The Strike at Arlingford, a play by George Moore |
| Artworks | Tangier, The Whie City by John Lavery |
| | Irish Market Scene by Walter Osborne |
| 1894 | April 21 | George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man, premiers at the Avenue Theatre, London with Yeats’s The Land of Heart’s Desire as the curtain- raiser. |
| July | Oscar Wilde’s Poems in Prose appear in The Fortnightly Review, London. |
| During the Year | John Joly perfects the first practical method for producing color photographs. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | The Story of Early Gaelic Literature by Douglas Hyde |
| | Esther Waters a novel by George Moore |
| | The Coming of Cuculain and Lost on Du Corrig by Standish O’Grady Homeward Songs by the Way poems by George Russell |
| | The Real Charlotte a novel by Edith Somerville & Violet Ross |
| | The Sphinx a story by Oscar Wilde |
| | Salome, The English edition, translated from the original French language play by Ocsar Wilde by Lord Alfred Douglas, with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. |
| | The Countess Cathleen a play by William Butler Yeats |
| | The Land of Heart's Desire a play by William Butler Yeats |
| Artworks | Killiney Sands by Richard Moynan |
| | The Farm at Lezaven, Finistere by Roderic O’Conor At the Breakfast by Walter F. Osborne |
| 1895 | January 3 | Oscar Wilde’s play An Ideal Husband opens in London at The Theatre Royal, Haymarket. |
| February 14 | Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest, produced by George Alexander opens in London at the St James's Theatre. |
| May 27 | Oscar Wilde is convicted of sodomy and sentenced to 2 years at hard labor. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | The Chain of Gold by Standish O’Grady |
| | The Royal Academy 1895 criticism by George Moore |
| | Celibates short stories by George Moore |
| | Love Songs of Connacht by Douglas Hyde |
| | Poems by William Butler Yeats |
| 1896 | February 11 | Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé produced by and starring Sarah Bernhardt opens in Paris at the Thèâtre de L'Oeuvre. |
| April 20 | A demonstration of the Lumière brothers’ cinematography is presented at the Star of Erin theatre, Dublin. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Ulrick the Ready by Standish O’Grady In the Wake of King James by Standish O’Grady |
| 1897 | February | The first motion pictures of Irish subjects are shown by Professor John Jolly in Dublin. The titles include; People walking in Sackville Street, Traffic on Carlisle Bridge and the 13th Hussars Marching through the City". |
| May 13 | Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Jail. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Irish Folk Songs by Alfred Percival Graves |
| | The Story of Early Irish Literature by Douglas Hyde |
| | The Flight of the Eagle by Standish O’Grady Bards of the Gael and Gall by William Sigerson |
| | Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| | The Gadfly a novel by Ethel Voynich |
| | The Secret Rose by William Butler Yeats |
| | The Tables of the Law by William Butler Yeats |
| | The Adoration of the Magi by William Butler Yeats |
| Artworks | Before the Start by Jack B. Yeats |
| | The Card Players by Jack B. Yeats |
| | Cider in Devonshire by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1898 | | The Irish Literary Theatre is established by William Butler Yeats, Lady Augusta Gregory and Edward Martyn. |
| | George Bernard Shaw declines an invitation to participate in the commemoration of the 1798 Uprising,“Until Irishmen apply themselves to what the condition of Ireland will be in 1998, they will get very little patriotism out of yours sincerely” Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Evelyn Innes a novel by George Moore |
| | The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde published anonymously over his prison number - C33. |
| | Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant by George Bernard Shaw |
| Artworks | Lovers in a Moonlit Garden ("Romeo and Juliet") by Roderic O’Conor |
| 1899 | May 8 | The Irish Literary Theatre opens at the Antient Concert Rooms with a performance of The Countess Cathleen by William Butler Yeats. |
| May 9 | Heather Field by Edward Martyn premiers at the Irish Literary Theater. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | A Literary History of Ireland by Douglas Hyde |
| | Medieval Tales from the Irish by Douglas Hyde |
| | Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Edith Somerville |
| | The Wind among the Reeds poems by William Butler Yeats |
| 1900 | February 19 | The Irish Literary Theatre opens in the Gaiety Theatre with a performances of The Bending of the Bough by George Moore and The Last Feast of the Fianna by Alice Milligan. |
| February 20 | Edward Martyn’s Maeve premiers at the Irish Literary Theatre. Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Ireland’s Battle for Her Language a pamphlet by Edward Martyn The Queen of the World by Standish O’Grady 1901 |
| October 21 | Douglas Hyde’s Casadh an tSugain (The Twisting of the Rope), the first play in Gaelic produced for the professional stage, premiers at the Gaitey Theatre, Dublin. George Moore & William Butler Yeats’ Diarmuid and Grania starring Douglas Hyde and the Inghinidhe-na-h-Eireann (Daughters of Erin) premiers at the Irish Literary Theatre. During the Year |
| | Hugh Lane begins a campaign to establish a gallery of modern art in Dublin after viewing an exhibition of paintings by Nathaniel Hone and John Butler Yeats. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Pebbles from a Brook essays by John Elginton |
| | Songs of Erin by Alfred Percival Graves |
| | Sister Theresa a novel by George Moore |
| | In the Gates of the North by Standish O’Grady Ireland and the Coronation: Why Ireland is Discontented a pamphlet by John Redmond |
| | Three Plays for Puritans by George Bernard Shaw |
| Artworks | Glencree Valley, Co. Dublin by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1902 | April 2 | Cathleen ni Houlihan, a play by William Butler Yeats, starring Maud Gonne premiers along with Æ’s (George Russell) Deirdre at the Irish Literary Theatre, Dublin. |
| October 30 | The Pot of Broth a play by William Butler Yeats premiers at the Antient Concert Rooms, Dublin. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | The Four Winds of Erinn by Ethna Carbery |
| | Cuchulain of Muirthemne an English adaptation of an old Gaelic saga by Lady Augusta Gregory |
| | An T-Ur-Gort short stories in Gaelic by George Moore |
| | Hugh Roe O’Donnell a play by Standish O’Grady Artworks |
| | The Rake by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1903 | March 14 | The Irish National Theatre Society opens at Molesworth Hall, Dublin with performances of The Hour Glass by William Butler Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory’s Twenty Five. |
| October 8 | The Shadow of the Glen by John Millington Synge and The King's Threshold by William Butler Yeats premier at Molesworth Hall. |
| December 3 | Broken Soil by Padraic Colum premiers at Molesworth Hall. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | The Passionate Hearts by Ethna Carbery |
| | The Riddle of the Sands a fictional account of German preparations to invade England by Erskine Childers. |
| | Songs Ascribed to Raftery by Douglas Hyde |
| | Poets and Dreamers by Lady Augusta Gregory |
| | The Untilled Field short stories by George Moore translated from his Gaelic work An T-Ur-Gort |
| | All on the Irish Shore by Edith Somerville |
| | Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats |
| | In the Seven Woods poems by William Butler Yeats |
| | The Saxon Shillin’ a play by Pádraic Colum Artworks |
| | Breton Girl by Roderic O'Conor |
| 1904 | January 2 | The first installment of Arthur Griffith's The Resurrection of Hungary: A Parallel for Ireland appears in United Irishman. |
| January 14 | The Shadowy Waters by William Butler Yeats opens at the Abbey Theatre. |
| February 25 | Riders to the Sea, a play by John Millington Synge, premiers at the Irish National Theatre in Dublin. |
| June 16 | Bloomsday – James A. Joyce’s follows Leopold Bloom as he wanders the streets of Dublin from 8 a.m. til 2 a.m. the next morning in the pages of Ulysses. |
| November 1 | John Bull’s Other Island, a play by George Bernard Shaw, premiers at the Royal Court Theatre, London. |
| December 27 | The Abbey Theatre opens with performances of William Butler Yeats's On Baile Strand and Lady Augusta Gregory's Spreading the News. |
| During the Year | Hugh Lane organizes the first ever exhibition of contemporary Irish art abroad at the Guildhall in London. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | In the Celtic Past by Ethna Carbery |
| | Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Augusta Gregory |
| Artworks | A Wet Day, Concarneau by John Lavery |
| | Geraniums by Roderic O'Conor |
| | Reclining Nude (#1172) by Roderic O’Conor Reclining Nude (#1299) by Roderic O’Conor |
| 1905 | February 4 | The Well of the Saints by John Millington Synge premiers at the Abbey Theatre. |
| May 23 | George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman premiers at the Royal Court Theatre, London. |
| June 9 | The Land by Pádraic Colum premiers at the Abbey Theatre. |
| November 28 | Major Barbara, a play by George Bernard Shaw, premiers at the Royal Court Theatre, London. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | The Lake a novel by George Moore |
| | De Profundis by Oscar Wilde is published posthumously |
| Artworks | Oliver Sheppard’s Wexford Pikemen, a memorial to the insurgent peasants of 1798 is unveiled. The Man from Aranmore by Jack B. Yeats |
| | The Beachcomber by Jack B. Yeats |
| | A Political Meeting by Jack B. Yeats |
| | John Masefield by Jack B. Yeats |
| | John Millington Synge by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1906 | February 19 | Hyacinth Halvey by Lady Augusta Gregory premiers at the Abbey Theatre. |
| April 16 | The Doctor in Spite of Himself Lady Augusta Gregory’s translation of a play by Molière premiers at the Abbey Theatre. |
| September 9 | The John Mandeville Memorial by Francis Doyle-Jones is unveiled at Mitchelstown, County Cork by William O'Brien, MP, before a crowd of 25,000 onlookers. |
| November 20 | The Doctor's Dilemma, a play by George Bernard Shaw, premiers at the Royal Court Theatre, London. Arthur Balfour attends four performances with cabinet colleagues. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | A Book of Saints and Wonders by Lady Augusta Gregory |
| | The Book of Gilly, Four Months out of a Life by Emily Lawless |
| | Memoirs of My Dead Life a novel by George Moore |
| | Reminiscences of the Impressionist Painters a work of nonfiction by George Moore |
| Artworks | The Hammock by John Lavery |
| | Breton Girl by Roderic O'Conor |
| | Oliver Sheppard’s bust of Clarence of Mangan is unveiled at St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin. Sea Captain by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1907 | January 26 | Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge premiers at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, to a hostile audience. |
| January | Augustine Birrell; legal scholar, essayist and humorist, is appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland. |
| March 9 | The Rising of the Moon, a play by Lady Augusta Gregory, premiers at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. |
| During the Year | Peadar Kearny composes the lyrics to Amhrán na bhFiann (A Soldier’s Song) which is later adopted as the national anthem of Ireland. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | The Irish Poems by Alfred Percival Graves |
| | The Masque of Finn by Standish O’Grady Examples of the Poetic Literature of Erinn by William Sigerson |
| | The Aran Islands written by John Millington Synge and illustrated by Jack B. Yeats |
| Artworks | Éire by Beatrice Elvery |
| | Boulevard Raspail by Roderic O’Conor |
| 1908 | January | The Municipal Gallery of Modern Art opens in temporary premises in Clonmell House, Dublin. Hugh Lane donates 154 works to found the Gallery. |
| April 4 | The Rogueries of Scapin Lady Augusta Gregory’s translation of a play by Molière premiers at the Abbey Theatre. May 22 |
| | The Miracle of the Corn: A Miracle Play by Padraic Colum opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Edith Somerville |
| | The Tinker's Wedding a play by John Millington Synge |
| Artworks | John Hughes’ sculpture of Queen Victoria is unveiled by Lord Aberdeen at Leinster House, Dublin. Portrait of Miss Annie Harmsworth by Sir William Orpen |
| | Portrait of Miss Harmsworth in a Landscape by Sir William Orpen |
| | The Card Players by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1909 | January 21 | The Miser Lady Augusta Gregory’s translation of a play by Molière opens at the Abbey Theatre. |
| March 23 | John Millington Synge dies of cancer at age 38. |
| November 11 | The Image a play by Lady Augusta Gregory premiers at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. |
| December 20 | Ireland's first dedicated cinema, The Volta, opens in Mary Street, Dublin under the management of James Joyce. |
| | Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | The Heart of the Antarctic by Ernest Shackleton |
| | The Kiltartan History Book by Lady Augusta Gregory |
| | Home Life in Ireland Robert Lynd |
| Artworks | Reclining Nude Before a Mirror by Roderic O'Conor |
| 1910 | January 13 | Deirdre of the Sorrows John Millington Synge's unfinished drama, premiers at the Abbey Theatre. |
| February 10 | The Green Helmet by William Butler Yeats premiers at the Abbey Theatre. |
| May 6 | King Edward VII dies at Buckingham Palace, age 69. King George V ascends the throne of Great Britain & Ireland. The Abbey Theatre refuses to close in mourning. |
| May 12 | Thomas Muskerry a play by Padraic Colum premiers at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. |
| During the Year | Sir Percy Buck is appointed director of music at Trinity College. |
| | Director Sidney Olcott produces several short melodramas in County Kerry for Kalem, a touring American film company. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | The Kiltartan Wonder Book by Lady Augusta Gregory |
| | An Olive Branch in Ireland and Its History by William O’BrienArtworks |
| | A Prayer for the Departed by Paul Henry |
| | The Potato Diggers by Paul Henry |
| | Mrs. Lavery Sketching by John Lavery |
| | Les Soeurs du Saint-Esprit, Concarneau by William Leech |
| | A Still Afternoon, Concarneau by William Leech |
| | Girl Reading by Roderic O'Conor |
| | Reclining Nude by Roderic O'Conor |
| | Derelict by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1911 | October 1 | A monument to Charles Stewart Parnell is unveiled in O’Connell Street, Dublin. The larger than life sculpture is the last public monument completed by Augustus Saint Gaudens. The 57 foot obelisk is the work of architect Henry Bacon. |
| During the Year | Patrick Heeney composes the musical accompaniment to Peadar Kearny’s lyrical composition, Amhran na bhFiann (A Soldier’s Song) which is later adopted as the Irish national anthem. Paintings of Irish Life an exhibition of paintings by Paul and Grace Henry is staged in Belfast. |
| | Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Vale Ave, the first volume of George Moore’s autobiographical trilogy Hail and Farewell. The book is filled with caricatures of literary contemporaries in Dublin. The author declares, “one half of Dublin is afraid it will be in the book, and the other is afraid that it won’t.” John Millington Synge and the Ireland of His Time by William Butler Yeats |
| | The Apostle: A Drama in Three Acts a play by George Moore |
| Artworks | The Watcher by Paul Henry |
| | A Convent Garden, Brittany by William Leech |
| | On To Glory by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1912 | January 11 | MacDarragh's Wife by Lady Augusta Gregory premiers at the Abbey Theatre. |
| November 21 | Damer’s Gold a revised version of Lady Augusta Gregory’s play The Hour Glass opens at the Abbey Theatre. November 25 |
| | Androcles and the Lion, a play by George Bernard Shaw, premiers in Berlin. |
| During the Year | Paintings of Co. Mayo, Ireland (Synge's Country) by Mr and Mrs Paul Henry are exhibited in London. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Salve the second volume of George Moore’s autobiographical trilogy Hail and Farewell. Rambles in Ireland by Robert Lynd with illustrations by Paul Henry |
| | Life in the West of Ireland by Jack B. Yeats |
| | The Cutting of an Agate by William Butler Yeats |
| Artworks | Moonlight, The Bridge by John Lavery |
| | The Wreck of The SS Delhi, Sid Cassim, Morocco by John Lavery |
| | The Veranda by John Lavery |
| | The Skiing Party:Wengen, Switzerland by John Lavery |
| | Valley of Cassis by Roderic O'Conor |
| | The Death of Cu Chulain, an Oliver Sheppard sculpture modeled by James Sleator |
| | The Country Shop by Jack B. Yeats |
| | The Metal Man by Jack B. Yeats |
| | The Rogues by Jack B. Yeats |
| | The Circus Dwarf by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1913 | November | George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion premiers at the Lessing Theatre, Berlin with a performance in German.During the Year |
| | Sir Hugh Lane withdraws his 39 continental paintings from the Gallery of Modern Art to the National Gallery in London when the Dublin Corporation rejects Sir Edward Lutyens’ design for a Liffey bridge gallery. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter in Autobiography by Lady Augusta Gregory |
| | Poems Written in Discouragement by William Butler Yeats |
| | Elizabeth Cooper: A Comedy in Three Acts a play by George Moore |
| | Esther Waters:A Play in Five Acts a play by George Moore |
| Artworks | The Lakes of Killarney by Sir John Lavery |
| | A Winter Afternoon by Sir John Lavery |
| | Twilight, Earls Court by Sir John Lavery |
| | Publican by Jack B. Yeats |
| | The Priest by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1914 | | February 2 – August 1 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James A. Joyce is serialized in The Egoist. |
| March 1 | James A. Joyce begins writing Ulysses |
| August 13 | It’s a Long Way to Tipperary is sung for the first time in the Great War by the 2nd Battalion of the Connaught Rangers during a regimental review of the British Expeditionary Force, "The Old Contemptables" at Boulogne, France.Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Shanwalla by Lady Augusta Gregorgy |
| | Dubliners short stories by James A. Joyce |
| | Children of the Dead End a novel by Patrick McGill |
| | Vale volume 3 of George Moore's autobiographical trilogy Hail and Farewell. |
| | Responsibilities poems by William Butler Yeats |
| Artworks | Cottage Kerry by Jack B. Yeats |
| | Fresh Horses by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1915 | May 7 | Sir Hugh Lane is among the 1,500 passengers drowned when RMS Lusitania is sunk by a U-boat off Kinsale. A long dispute ensues between Dublin and London over possession of his 39 continental pictures. Lane had added a codicil to his will stating that he wished to leave his famous collection to the new gallery in Dublin. A British commission deems that Lane's wish should not be honored as the codicil was not witnessed. |
| July 29 | Douglas Hyde resigns as president of the Gaelic League after militant nationalists take control of the organization at its ard fheis in Dundalk. |
| | Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Battle Songs of the Irish Brigades by Tom Kettle with S.L. Gwynn |
| | Songs of the Fields poems by Francis Ledwidge |
| | The Irish at the Front by Micheal MacDonagh |
| | Reveries Over Childhood and Youth by William Butler Yeats |
| Artworks | Reclining Nude on a Chaise Lounge by Roderic O'Conor |
| | Before the Start, Galway by Jack B. Yeats |
| | Bachelor’s Walk: In Memory by Jack B. YeatsThe Lying in State of O'Donovan Rossa by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1916 | April | The Royal Hibernian Academy’s buildings in Lower Abbey Street, Dublin are destroyed during the Easter Rising. September 5 |
| | Lieutenant Tom Kettle, poet and former nationalist MP, is killed in action while serving with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers on the Somme. |
| December 29 | The first edition of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is published in New York. |
| During the Year | George Bernard Shaw’s play Heartbreak House premiers in London. Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | The Irish Rebellion of 1916 and Its Martyrs: Erin’s Tragic Easter by Pádraic Colum Wild Earth and Other Poems by Pádraic Colum |
| | Hyperthuleana Gaelic poems by Oliver St. John Gogarty |
| | The Brook Kerith: A Syrian Story a novel by George Moore |
| | What the Irish Regiments have Done by John Redmond |
| Artworks | La Femme Au Drap Rouge by Roderic O'Conor |
| 1917 | January | Ireland, A Nation, the story of Robert Emmet and attempts to obtain Home Rule in Ireland, is given one public showing at the Rotunda in Dublin before being banned by British authorities. The American film written by P.J. Bourke and directed by Walter McNamara plays to packed houses in the United States. |
| July 31 | Private Francis Ledwidge, a nationalist poet who, “joined the British Army because she stood between Ireland and an enemy common to our civilization and I would not have her say that she defended us while we did nothing at home but pass resolutions", is killed in action at Ypres, Belgium.August |
| | Liam O'Flaherty suffers a severe head wound during a bombardment at Langemarck, Belgium. He’s later invalided out of the British army after being diagnosed with melancholia acuta, i.e. shell-shock.Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | The Ways of War by Tom Kettle published posthumously |
| | Irish Memories by Edith Somerville |
| | The Wild Swans at Coole poems by William Butler Yeats including An Irish Airman |
| | Blight: The Tragedy of Dublin : An Exposition in 3 Acts by Alpha and Omega (Oliver St. John Gogarty and Joseph K. O’Connor) Artworks |
| | The Lake of the Tears of the Sorrowing Women by Paul Henry |
| | Edinburgh from Mons Meg by Sir John Lavery |
| | Dead Germans in a Trench by William Orpen |
| | Members of the Allied Press Corps by William Orpen |
| | Ready to Start by William Orpen |
| 1918 | March | Little Review publishes Telemachus the first episode of James A. Joyce's work in progress later published as Ulysses. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | The Ship and Other Poems by Oliver St. John Gogarty |
| | Last Songs poems by Francis Ledwidge |
| | The Valley of the Squinting Windows a novel by Brinsley MacNamara |
| | A Story-teller’s Holiday by George Moore The Sacrifice of Thomas Ashe by Sean O Cathasaigh (Sean O'Casey) |
| | Per Amica Silentia Lunae by William Butler Yeats |
| Artworks | Ambulance Train by Sir John Lavery |
| 1919 | February 17 | The first season of the Dublin Drama League opens with a performance of Srgjan Tucic's The Liberators. The League was organized to bring experimental drama to Dublin audiences by Lennox Robinson, Ernest Boyd, James Stephens and William Butler Yeats. |
| During the Year | Paul Henry makes his last visit to Achill Island. His works painted during 10 years of travel to Achill include; Achill Head, Achill Cottages, Achill Boat, The Watcher, The Tower, Blasket Island and Launching the Curragh. |
| | Sir William Orpen protests the conduct of the political elite at Versailles at the expense of the efforts of the common soldier in the trenches with a painting entitled, To the Unknown British Soldier in France. The work portrays a coffin flanked by winged putti and two wraith-like figures from the trenches set against the splendid backdrop of Versailles. Orpen's painting provokes a storm of criticism and before it can be hung at the Royal Academy Orpen is required to paint out the image of the dead soldiers. |
| | Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | The Story of the Irish Citizen Army by Sean O’CaseySouth, account of his 1914 Antarctic expedition, by Sir Ernest Shackleton |
| | The Kiltartan Poetry Book: Prose Translations from the Irish by Lady Augusta Gregory |
| | The Last Independent Parliament of Ireland by William Sigerson |
| | The Wild Swans at Cool by William Butler Yeats |
| | A Serious Thing a play by Oliver St. John Gogarty |
| | The Enchanted Trousers a play by Oliver St. John Gogarty |
| | Two Plays for Dancers by William Butler Yeats |
| Artworks | The Signing of the Peace by Sir William Orpen |
| | To the Unknown British Soldier in France by Sir William Orpen |
| 1920 | November 10 | George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House premiers at the Theatre Guild, New York.During the Year |
| | The Society of Dublin Painters is founded by Clare Marsh, Jack B. Yeats, Mary Swanzy, Harry Clarke, Mainie Jellett and Charles Lamb and stages its first exhibition. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland by Lady Augusta Gregory |
| | The Masque of Finn by Standish O’Grady Artworks |
| | A Western Village by Paul Henry |
| | A Lough Neagh Fisherman by Charles Lamb |
| | Paladian Bridge, Winton House by Sir John Lavery |
| | The Villa Sylvia, Cap Ferrat by Sir John Lavery |
| | Seaweed by William Leech |
| | Dawn, Holyhead by Jack B. Yeats |
| | Seals at Tawin Bay by Jack B. Yeats |
| Film | Ireland, A Nation, is re-released in Ireland after having been banned for several years by British authorities. The Gaelic Film Company has added new scenes from the contemporary situation featuring the Auxiliaries, the Black and Tans and the death of Terence MacSweeny, the Lord Mayor of Cork. |
| 1921 | May 25 | The Irish Republican Army burns the Custom House in Dublin. Damages to James Gandon's 18th century masterpiece exceed £2,000,000. The interior and a huge quantity of public records are destroyed as the building is completely engulfed. The fire blazes for five days. The heat is so intense that the dome melts and the stonework is still cracking because of cooling five months later. |
| | Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Heloïse and Abélard by George Moore |
| | Michael Robartes and the Dancer poems by William Butler Yeats |
| | Four Plays for Dancers by William Butler Yeats |
| Artworks | Men of the South by Sean Keating |
| | Dancing at a Northern Crossroads by Charles Lamb |
| | The Ratification of the Irish Treaty in the English House of Lords by Sir John Lavery |
| | Study for Earl Morley Addressing the House of Lords by Sir John Lavery |
| 1922 | February 2 | The first edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses is published by Shakespeare & Company, Paris. |
| February 27 | George Bernard Shaw’s Back to Methuselah, premiers at the Theatre Guild, New York. |
| | June 28 – 30 The Four Courts, Thomas Cooley & James Gandon’s 18th century architectural masterpiece, is severely damaged when the Free State Army bombards Republican forces occupying the building. Republican mines destroy the Public Records Office’s priceless collection of historical documents. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | In Single Strictness short stories by George Moore |
| | The Trembling of the Veil by William Butler Yeats |
| | Later Poems by William Butler Yeats |
| | Plays in Prose and Verse by William Butler Yeats with Lady Augusta Gregory |
| Artworks | Michael Collins (Love of Ireland by Sir John Lavery |
| | Golf Course, North Berwick by Sir John Lavery |
| | Off the Donegal Coast by Jack B. Yeats |
| | The Funeral of Harry Boland by Jack B. Yeats |
| | Draughts by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1923 | January | Free State Senator Oliver St. John Gogarty escapes from Republican kidnappers holding him in a deserted house on the edge of the Liffey by pleading a natural necessity. Gogarty makes it into the garden and plunges into the icy waters of the Liffey under a shower of revolver bullets vowing to return two swans to the river should it land him in safety. The incident inspires him to write a book of verse entitled An Offering of Swans shortly thereafter. |
| February | Moore Hall is burnt by Republicans in the Civil War. George Moore receives compensation of £7,000 from Free State government. |
| April 9 | The Shadow of A Gunman Sean O’Casey’s drama set in the tenements of Dublin during the Anglo- Irish War premiers at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. |
| November 14 | William Butler Yeats is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, “for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.” |
| During the Year | Cambridge scholar George Thomson visits the Great Blasket Island off the coast of County Kerry. Thomson and encourages Muiris O Suilleabhain to write in his native Gaelic. The result is Fiche Blian ag Fas (Twenty Years A-Growing) an autobiography published the following year. |
| | St. Joan a play by George Bernard Shaw premiers at the Garrick Theatre, New York. |
| | Sarah Purser is the first woman admitted as an associate of the Royal Hibernian Academy. |
| | Mainie Jellett introduces cubism to Ireland with an exhibition of her paintings in Dublin. The writer and painter George Russell describes her work as, “artistic malaria”. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Encounters a first book of short stories by Elizabeth Bowen |
| | The Irish Revolution and How It Came About by William O’Brien Plays and Controversies by William Butler Yeats |
| | The Would-Be Gentleman a play by Lady Augusta Gregory |
| | The Story Brought By Brigid a play by Lady Augusta Gregory |
| | An Old Woman Remembers a monologue by Lady Augusta Gregory |
| Artworks | Dawn, Killary Harbour by Paul Henry |
| | The Red Rose by Sir John Lavery |
| | Blessing of the Colors: "A Revolutionary Soldier Kneeling to the Blessed" by Sir John Lavery |
| | Seated Nude, Half Length by Roderic O'Conor |
| | Gathering Seaweed, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo by Jack B. Yeats |
| | A Daughter of the Circus by Jack B. Yeats |
| | Patriotic Airs by Jack B. Yeats |
| | The Liffey Swim by Jack B. Yeats |
| | Morning after Rain by Jack B. Yeats |
| | In the Tram by Jack B. Yeats |
| | The Island Funeral by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1924 | March 3 | Juno and Paycock, Sean O’Casey’s drama of tenement life set in the immediate aftermath of the Anglo-Irish War after premiers at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. During the Year |
| | Ernest Blythe (Free State Minister for Finance) grants £1,000 to the Abbey Theatre, making it the first state-funded theatre in the English-speaking world. |
| | Jack B. Yeats is awarded a silver medal for painting by the International Olympic Committee during an exhibition held in conjunction with the Paris Games. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | The Hidden Ireland by Daniel Corkery |
| | An Offering of Swans a book of verse by Oliver St.John Gogarty |
| | Conversations in Ebury Street a memoir by George Moore |
| | A Vision by William Butler Yeats |
| | The Cat and the Moon poems and a play by William Butler Yeats |
| Artworks | Nu Allonge by Roderic O'Conor |
| | Communicating with Prisoners by Jack B. Yeats |
| | Fair Day by Jack B. Yeats |
| | Glencar, Sligo by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1925 | | George Bernard Shaw is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, “for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty.” In Connemara a painting by Paul Henry is reproduced as a poster by The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company. The poster proves to be hugely popular with the public and the railway sells almost 1,000 copies in the first year. Henry paints numerous western Irish landscapes during the decade including; A Western Lough, Cottages by a Lough, Cottages in Connemara, Connemara Landscape, Turf sacks in Connemara and Glencree. |
| | Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | The Informer a novel by Liam O'Flaherty |
| | The Big House at Inver by Edith Somerville |
| Artworks | The Drawing Room at Mount Stewart by Sir John Lavery |
| | The Winter Sun, Hyde Park Corner by Sir John Lavery |
| | Back from the Races by Jack B. Yeats |
| | The Old Grass Road, Kinsale by Jack B. Yeats |
| | A Window in Kinsale by Jack B. Yeats |
| | Singing 'Oh Had I the Wings of a Swallow' by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1926 | February 8 | The Plough and the Stars by Sean O’Casey premiers at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre. The audience erupts in riotous disapproval of O’Casey’s portrayal of the Irish Citizen Army. William Butler Yeats tells the audience, “You have disgraced yourselves again.” |
| February 11 | The Abbey Theatre audience led by Hanna Sheehy Skeffington erupts in riotous disapproval of O’Casey’s portrayal of Patrick Pearse and the Irish Citizen Army in The Plough and the Stars. William Butler Yeats tells the audience, “You have disgraced yourselves again.” |
| During the Year | Amhran na bhFian (A Soldier's Song) words by Peadar Kearny with music by Patrick Heeney is adopted as the Irish national anthem. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | The Road Round Ireland by Padraic Colum |
| | Ulich and Soracha a novel by George Moore |
| | The Parnell of Real Life by William O’Brien Artworks |
| | Portrait of Mrs Jack Yeats by Jack B. Yeats |
| | Flower Girl, Dublin by Jack B. Yeats |
| Film | Irish Destiny, is banned by the British Board of Film Censors. The Irish Rebellion of 1916-22 is the backdrop for the love story, and the film features a scene showing the burning of the Dublin Custom House. |
| 1927 | | Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | The Hotel a first novel by Elizabeth Bowen |
| | Celibate Lives a novel by George Moore |
| | Autobiographies by William Butler Yeats |
| | Sancha’s Master a play by Lady Augusta Gregory Dave a play by Lady Augusta Gregory |
| | The Making of an Immortal: A Play in One Act by George Moore |
| Artworks | The Quay Worker's Home by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1928 | October 9 | The Currency Commission of the Irish Free State issues its first banknotes. The £1, £5 and £10 notes designed by Sir John Lavery feature a portrait of his wife, Lady Hazel Martyn Lavery, posing as Cathleen ni Houlihan an allegorical figure representing Ireland. |
| October 18 | Dublin’s Gate Theatre Company, founded by Hilton Edwards and Mícheál Mac Liammóir, opens with a production of Hendrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt. |
| During the Year | The Silver Tassie, a play by Sean O’Casey, is rejected by the Abbey Theatre. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Wild Apples poems by Oliver St. John Gogarty |
| | The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism by George Bernard Shaw |
| | Where Rivers Run a novel by Maurice Walsh |
| | The Tower poems by William Butler Yeats |
| | Sophocles King Oedipus: A Version for the Modern Stage a play by William Butler Yeats |
| Artworks | Dinner Hour at the Docks by Jack B. Yeats |
| | The Singing Clown by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1929 | June 29 | The Applecart, a play by George Bernard Shaw premiers at the Polish Theatre, Warsaw. |
| July 16 | The Censorship of Publications Act requires that all books, newspapers and periodicals entering or published in the Irish Free State to be submitted for censorship by a 5 member board appointed by the Minister of Justice. Publications advocating birth control are specifically prohibited along with others found by the board to be, “indecent, obscene or likely to corrupt or deprave.” October 11 |
| | Sean O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie premiers at the Apollo Theatre, London. The show, promoted by George Bernard Shaw and produced by C. B. Cochran runs for 2 months. Charles Laughton plays the lead role on a set designed by Augustus John. |
| | Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | The Last September a novel by Elizabeth Bown |
| | Blind Fireworks poems by Louis MacNiece |
| | An tOileánach (The Islandman) Tomas O Criomhthain’s tale of fishermen and peasants on the Gaelic speaking Blasket Islands off County Kerry |
| | The Winding Stair poems by William Butler Yeats |
| Artwork | Going to Wolfe Tone's Grave by Jack B. Yeats |
| | Jazz Babies by Jack B. Yeats |
| Film | Barry Fitzgerald makes his film debut as lead actor in Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of the Sean O’Casey play Juno and Paycock. The first film version of Liam O’Flaherty’s novel The Informer is produced in Great Britain under the direction of Arthur Robison. |
| 1930 | February 12 | The first Irish Free State Censorship Board is appointed. |
| May 13 | The Free State Censorship Board bans 13 books by English and American authors. Birth control is the subject of nine of the prohibited publications. |
| | Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | To Return to All That an autobiography of Alfred Percival Graves |
| | A Flood a novel by George Moore |
| | Aphrodite in Aulis a novel by George Moore |
| | The States Through Irish Eyes by Edith Somerville |
| Artworks | T.P. O’Connor, a bust of the Irish nationalist MP by Francis Doyle-Jones is erected in Fleet Street London.Lakeside Cottages by Paul Henry |
| | Spring in Connemara by Paul Henry |
| | Les Oranges du Beau Site de Cannes by Sir John Lavery |
| | Canal Water by Jack B. Yeats |
| Film | Barry Fitzgerald makes his film debut as the Orator in Alfred Hitchcock’s version of the Sean O’Casey drama, Juno and Paycock. The film is seized and burned by a crowd at its first screening in Ireland. |
| 1931 | | Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | The Talking Pine a nonfiction work by George Moore |
| | Guests of the Nation short stories by Frank O’Connor |
| 1932 | June 26 | A crowd of over a million people gathers in Phoenix Park, Dublin for the conclusion of the 31st International Eucharistic Congress. John McCormack sings Panis Angelicus during the Pontifical High Mass. |
| September | The Irish Academy of Letters is founded William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and George Russell. The membership includes several authors whose publications are banned from circulation in the Irish Free State. |
| During the Year | Samuel Beckett writes his first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, it remains unpublished for the next sixty years. |
| | Austin Clarke’s first novel The Bright Temptation is banned by the Board of Censors Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Midsummer Night Madness short stories by Sean O'Faolain |
| | An Incorruptible Irishman by Edith Somerville |
| Artworks | The Clown among the People by Jack B. Yeats |
| Film | American director Robert Flaherty begins filming Man of Aran a documentary of life on the Aran Isles off the west coast of Ireland. Flaherty spends almost 2 years and shoots a half million feet of film which he edits into a 76 minute movie. |
| 1933 | | Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | A Communication to My Friends a work of nonfiction by George Moore |
| | The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home by George Bernard Shaw |
| 1934 | | Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | A Nest of Simple Folk a novel by Sean O'Faoláin |
| | Letters to the New Island by William Butler Yeats |
| | The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles a play by George Bernard Shaw |
| | The Millionairess a play by George Bernard Shaw |
| | The King of the Great Clock Tower a play by William Butler Yeats |
| | Wheels and Butterflies plays by William Butler Yeats |
| 1935 | April | Death of Cuchulainn, a sculpture by Oliver Sheppard is installed in the Dublin General Post Office as a memorial to the 1916 Rising. |
| August 12 | The Silver Tassie opens in Dublin six years after it was rejected by the Abbey Theater. O’Casey’s play arouses strong opposition from the clergy who denounce it as blasphemous. Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Poems by Louis MacNiece |
| | Dramatis Personae an autobiography by William Butler Yeats |
| | Parnell's Funeral and Other Poems by William Butler Yeats |
| | A Full Moon in March plays and poems by William Butler Yeats |
| Artworks | Torremolinos by Roderic O’Conor About to Write a Letter by Jack B. Yeats |
| Film | Beloved Enemy, Director Henry Potter’s film based on an alleged affair between Micheal Collins and Lady Lavery during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations is released in America.The Informer, a screen adaptation of Liam O’Flaherty’s novel, is released in America by RKO. The film receives 6 Academy Award nominations including one for best picture. John Ford receives the award for best director; Dudley Nichols for best screenplay and Victor McLaglen for best actor. |
| 1936 | | Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Ploughman and Other Poems by Patrick Kavanagh |
| | Bird Alone a novel by Sean O'Faolain |
| | Peig, The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of The Blasket Island, is published in Gaelic |
| Artworks | A Storm Gaillshion by Jack B. Yeats |
| | The Mayo Coast by Jack B. Yeats |
| | A Rose Dying by Jack B. Yeats |
| Film | The Plough and the Stars, Dudley Nichols screen adaptation of Sean O’Casey’s play, directed by John Ford and starring Barry Fitzgerald, Una O’Connor, Preston Foster and Barbara Stanwyck is released in America by RKO. |
| 1937 | March 15 | George Bernard Shaw calls for a representative commission of enquiry into the Casement diaries in a letter to the Irish Press. |
| May 13 | An explosion destroys the equestrian statue of King George II on Saint Stephen’s Green, Dublin. |
| November 11 | An explosion destroys a sculpture of the Royal Arms over the entrance to a government building and damages several nearby structures in Dublin. |
| November | Oliver St.John Gogarty loses a libel action arising from his anti-Semitic remarks about Henry Sinclair in As I Was Going Down Sackville Street : A Phantasy in Fact. Gogarty is fined £900 and ordered to pay costs of £2,000. He leaves Ireland for London shortly thereafter and later settles in New York. |
| | Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | The Irish Republic by Dorothy MacArdle |
| | Letters from Iceland by Louis MacNiece with W.H. Auden |
| | Salud! An Irishman in Spain by Peadar O'Donnell |
| | A Purse of Coppers short stories by Sean O'Faolain |
| | Teresa and other stories by Sean O'Faolain |
| | Essays, 1931 to 1936 by William Butler Yeats |
| Artworks | In Memory of Boucicault and Bianconi by Jack B. Yeats |
| | A Race in Hy-Brazil by Jack B. Yeats |
| Film | Parnell, the film version of Irish Home Rule leader Charles Stewart Parnell’s affair with Kitty O’Shea starring Clark Gable, is produced in America. |
| 1938 | | Patrick Kavanagh’s The Green Fool is suppressed after Oliver St. John Gogarty threatens a libel action over Kavanagh’s reference to his door at Ely place being opened by Gogarty's "mistress".The Irish National War Memorial and Garden of Remembrance in Phoenix Park, Dublin is dedicated to the Irish soldiers who died in the Great War. The memorial designed by Sir Edward Lutyens took seven years to complete. |
| | Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | I Follow St. Patrick memoirs by Oliver St. John Gogarty |
| | A Servant of the Queen the autobiography of Maud Gonne MacBride |
| | The Earth Compels by Louis MacNiece |
| | King of the Beggars A Life of Daniel O'Connell a biography by Sean O'Faolain |
| | In Good King Charles's Golden Days by George Bernard Shaw |
| | New Poems by William Butler Yeats |
| | The Herne's Egg a play by William Butler Yeats |
| Artworks | Tea At Palm Springs by Sir John Lavery |
| | Railway Embankment by William Leech |
| | Girl with Green Shawl (Cailin Og Iarthar) by Maurice MacGonigal |
| 1939 | January 28 | William Butler Yeats dies at age 73 in the Hotel Ideal Sejour at Menton, France. |
| February 2 | The first edition of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce is published in France. |
| May | Louis MacNiece writes Autumn Journal, a long poem in twenty-four sections, occasioned by the Munich Crisis. |
| November | John McCormack begins a tour of Great Britain giving 39 concerts for servicemen and on behalf of the Red Cross. He also broadcasts regularly on the BBC. |
| December | Brendan Behan is arrested in Liverpool for possessing explosives and sentenced to three years Borstal detention for possessing explosives. The episode provides the title for the Irish author and playwright’s 1958 autobiography Borstal Boy. |
| During the Year | Sean O’Casey’s first autobiographical volume first I Knock at the Door is banned in Ireland. Other Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Elbow Room poems by Oliver St. John Gogarty |
| | At Swim-Two-Bird by Flann O’BrienDe Valera a biography by Sean O'Faoláin |
| | Last Poems and Two Plays by William Butler Yeats |
| | Purgatory a play by William Butler Yeats |
| Artworks | Achill Horses by Mainie Jellett |
| Film | Maureen O’Hara appears in her first starring role in Alfred Hitchcock’s Jamaica Inn. |
| 1940 | October | The first issue of the literary quarterly, The Bell, appears under the editorship of Sean O’Faoláin.During the Year |
| | Flann O’Brien writes the first of his Myles na gCopaleen (Myles of the Small Horses) columns for the Irish Times. The column runs for over 20 years, for the first year in Irish and afterwards in English. Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Going Native a novel by Oliver St. John Gogarty |
| | Do poems by Oliver St. John Gogarty |
| | The Life of a Painter the autobiography of Sir John Lavery |
| | Come Back to Erin a novel by Sean O'Faolain |
| | An Irish Journey by Sean O'Faolain illustrated by Paul Henry |
| | If I Were Four and Twenty by William Butler Yeats (published posthumously) |
| Artworks | The Port Authority by John Keating |
| | A Picnic by Louis le Brocquy |
| | The Lonely Sea by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1941 | January 13 | James Joyce dies of a perforated ulcer at age 58 in the Schwesterhaus vom Roten Kreuz, Zurich, Switzerland. |
| February 15 | The first broadcast of Word From America, written and produced by Louis MacNiece, is transmitted by the British Broadcasting Corporation. |
| May 5 | The Irish Board of Censors bans The Land of Spices a novel by Kate O’Brien. Protests against the ban force the Board to establish an appeals procedure. Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Mad Grandeur: A Novel by Oliver St. John Gogarty |
| | The Children of Lir by Douglas Hyde |
| | An Béal Bocht by Flann O’Brien later translated as The Hard LifeFilm |
| | Barry Fitzgerald and Maureen O’Hara star in John Ford’s film version of the Richard Llewellyn novel How Green Was My Valley. |
| 1942 | October 12 | Christopher Columbus, the first radio drama written by Louis MacNiece, is broadcast by the BBC. |
| During the Year | The Municipal Gallery of Dublin refuses to accept Georges Rouault's painting Christ and the Soldier 1930 on the grounds that it is blasphemous. |
| | Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Songs of Columcille by Douglas Hyde |
| | The Great Hunger an epic poem by Patrick Kavanaugh |
| | Pictures in the Hallway by Sean O'Casey |
| | The Great O'Neill a biography by Sean O'Faoláin |
| | Constance Markievicz a biography by Sean O'Faolain |
| Artworks | Exiles by Patrick Hennessy |
| | The Two Travelers by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1943 | January 25 | Faustus Kelly by Flann O’Brien premiers at the Abbey Theatre. |
| September 6 | The Dublin Corporation petitions the Government to replace John Hughes’ statue of Queen Victoria in front of Leinster House (Parliament) with a statue of Lord Edward Fitzgerald.The Irish Exhibition of Living Art is formed to display cubist and realist works deemed unacceptable to the Royal Hibernian Academy. Mainie Jellet, Evie Hone and Louis le Brocquy are among the founders. |
| Artworks | The Old Bathing Place by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1944 | | Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | And to You Also a novella by Jack B. Yeats |
| Artworks | Jack B. Yeats, #9, bronze bust by Laurence Campbell |
| | Low Tide on the Garavogue by Jack B. Yeats |
| Film | Barry Fitzgerald receives the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his performance in Going My Way. |
| 1945 | September 16 | Famed Irish tenor John McCormack dies in Dublin at age 61. |
| Artwork | The False Morning Promise by Jack B. Yeats |
| | Path of Diarmuid and Grainne by Jack B. Yeats |
| | The Death of Diarmuid, the last handful of water by Jack B. Yeats |
| | The Launching by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1946 | | The first issue of Irish Writing appears with a feature article by Flann O’Brien entitled, Drink and Time in Dublin. Artworks |
| | The Embanked Road, 1939 by Jack B. Yeats |
| | The Ale House by Jack B. Yeats |
| | Leaving the Far Point by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1947 | | Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Mr. Petunia a novel by Oliver St. John Gogarty |
| | Buoyant Billions by George Bernard Shaw |
| Artworks | The Sea and the Lighthouse by Jack B. Yeats |
| Film | Captain Boycott, a film version of Philip Rooney’s novel about an 1880s landlord tenant dispute that gave the word “boycott” its current meaning relations in the 1880s is filmed in Ireland. |
| 1948 | | The remains of William Butler Yeats are returned from France and reburied at Drumcliff, County Sligo. |
| | John Hughes’ statue of Queen Victoria is moved from the front lawn of Leinster House (Parliament) to make way for a statue of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. The Victoria memorial is removed to Royal Kilmainham Hospital and finally given to the Australian Government. Artworks |
| | Fair Day at Castle Market, Castlepollard, Westmeath by Letitia M. Hamilton |
| | Travelling Woman with Newspaper by Louis le Brocquy |
| | Returning to Shore by Jack B. Yeats |
| | Returning from the Bathe, Mid-Day by Jack B. Yeats |
| | A Present of Islands by Jack B. Yeats |
| 1949 | | Literary Works appearing during the year |
| | Inishfallen, Fare Thee Well by Sean O’Casey The Man Who Invented Sin and other stories by Sean O'Faolain |
| | Sixteen Self-Sketches by George Bernard Shaw |
| | Shakespeare versus Shaw by George Bernard Shaw |
