August 27 - The Galway Gaelic Theatre (afterwards called the Taibhdhearc Theatre) opens with Michael MacLiammoir's production of Diarmuid agus Grainne (1928).
August 28 - Liam O'Flaherty, a novelist whose best-known work, The Informer, is a study of the life of an Irish revolutionary, is born (1896).
August 29 - The Science and Art Museum and the National Library of Ireland open (1890).
August 30 - Michael Banim, a writer who, along with his coauthor and brother John, sought to create sympathetic yet non-stereotypical Irish characters in his stories, dies (1874).
August 31 - Charles Lever, fiction writer famous for his rendering of Trinity College's privileged atmosphere, is born (1806)/
September 1 - Sir Richard Steele, playwright and journalist, dies (1729).
September 2 - Cummann na nGaedheal, the Centre Party, and the National Guard (once known as the "Blue Shirts") join to form Fine Gael (1933).
September 3 - Fanny Parnell, poet, Land League agitator, and sister of Charles Stewart Parnell, is born (1854).
September 4 - In what is called the "Flight of the Earls," Hugh O'Neill, the earl of Tyrone, and others leave Ireland for the Continent (1607).
September 5 - In the guise of an Irish patriot, M.B. Drapier, Swift publishes "Drapier Letter III," one of a series of letters designed to incite the people against a new coinage (1724).
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