Editing 1995 in Ireland (section)

==Arts and literature==
* 24 January – [[The Chieftains]]' [[album]] ''[[The Long Black Veil (album)|The Long Black Veil]]'' was released. It included collaborations with [[Van Morrison]] (on "[[Have I Told You Lately]]") and [[Sinéad O'Connor]] (on folk songs including "[[She Moved Through the Fair|He Moved Through the Fair]]").
* 21 April – [[Sitcom]] ''[[Father Ted]]'', written by [[Arthur Mathews (writer)|Arthur Mathews]] and [[Graham Linehan]] and starring [[Dermot Morgan]] and [[Ardal O'Hanlon]], first aired on [[Channel 4]] television in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111958/releaseinfo|work=[[Internet Movie Database|IMDb]]|title=Release dates for "Father Ted"|access-date=2012-03-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/ten/2011/0104/fatherted.html |publisher=[[RTÉ]] |first=Alan |last=Corr |title=In Ted We Trust |date=4 January 2011 |access-date=2012-03-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102145331/http://www.rte.ie/ten/2011/0104/fatherted.html |archive-date=2 November 2012}}</ref>
* 2–23 May – Historical mini-series ''[[The Hanging Gale]]'' premiered on [[RTÉ One]] television.
* 13 May – Ireland staged the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1995|Eurovision Song Contest]].
* 5 October – Poet [[Seamus Heaney]] was awarded the [[Nobel Prize for Literature]].
* [[Sebastian Barry]]'s play ''[[The Steward of Christendom]]'' was produced for the first time.
* [[Phil Coulter]] wrote the anthem "[[Ireland's Call]]" to a commission from the [[Irish Rugby Football Union]].
* [[Emma Donoghue]]'s novel ''[[Hood (novel)|Hood]]'' was published.<ref>{{cite book|last=Smyth|first=Gerry|title=The Novel and The Nation: Studies in the New Irish Fiction|location=London|publisher=Pluto Press|year=1997}}</ref>
* [[Anne Enright]]'s first novel ''The Wig My Father Wore'' was published.
* [[Marian Keyes]]' first novel ''Watermelon'' was published.
* [[Patrick McCabe (novelist)|Patrick McCabe]]'s novel ''The Dead School'' was published.
* [[Rachel Joynt]] and [[Remco de Fouw]]'s sculpture ''Perpetual Motion'' was installed on the [[Naas]] by-pass.