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June – Edward Carson becomes the youngest QC in Ireland (aged 35).^[1]
July – Ballymena and Larne Railway taken over by Belfast and Northern Counties Railway.^[2]
24 December – Irish nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell is accused of adultery after Captain Willy O'Shea files for divorce on the grounds his wife Kitty O'Shea had an affair with Parnell. The scandal would later result in the dismissal of Parnell as leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
A religious group of the Order of Carmelite leave Dublin for the United States at the invitation of the New York Archbishop later establishing the Provence of St. Elias.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is founded.
The Land League builds a house for recently evicted tenant Tom Kelly in Kiltimagh, County Mayo.
Poet William Butler Yeats is introduced by John O'Leary to Irish nationalist Maude Gonne.
Union leader James Connolly is married to Lillie Reynolds in Dublin. Connolly later deserts the British Army and flees to Perth, Scotland.
Industrialist Horace Plunkett returns to Ireland after his fathers death.
The Tropical Ravine House in Belfast Botanic Gardens is built by head gardener Charles McKimm.
Foundation stone laid for the Albert Bridge, Belfast by Queen Victoria’s grandson, Prince Albert Victor.

July 8 – The last official bare knuckles title fight ever held as Heavyweight Champion John L. Sullivan defeats Jack Kilrain in a world championship bout lasting 75 rounds.

2 March England 6 – 0 Ireland (in Liverpool)^[3]

9 March Scotland 7 – 0 Ireland (in Glasgow)^[3]

27 April Ireland 1 – 3 Wales (in Belfast)^[3]

Winners: Distillery 5 – 4 YMCA

The first GAA Armagh Championship is held.
The hierarchy of the Catholic Church, including Archbishop Logue, condemn the GAA for its violence and demoralising influences as well as charging the association as a recruiting ground of radical nationalist organizations.
March 24 – The first Cavan Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) convention is held in Armagh.
September 8 – The Cavan Gaelic Athletic Association holds a football game between Killinkere and Crosserlough. The game is reported by the Anglo-Celt as "..More like a contest between 42 dangerous and ferocious wire haired lunatics than any competition."

1 January – Patrick McGill, in Glenties, writer.
10 January – Maurice Collis, colonial administrator and writer (d.1973).
2 February – Dorothy Macardle, author and historian (d.1958).
17 March – Harry Clarke, stained glass artist and book illustrator (d.1931).
17 March – Fionán Lynch, Sinn Féin MP and TD, member of 1st Dáil, Cabinet Minister, Cumann na nGaedhael and Fine Gael TD (d.1966).
12 April – Patrick McGilligan – Cumann na nGaedhael/Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister (d.1979).
13 April – Ernest Blythe, writer, journalist and theatre manager, member of 1st Dáil and Cabinet Minister (b.1975).
7 June – Frank Duff, founder of the Legion of Mary (d.1980).
June – James Sleator, painter (d.1950).

19 July – John Vincent Holland, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 at Guillemont, France (d.1975).
22 August – Seán MacEntee, Fianna Fáil TD and Tánaiste from 1959 to 1965 (d.1984).
17 November – James Duffy, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 at Kereina Peak, Palestine (d.1969).
20 November – Donn Byrne, writer.
1 December – Michael Hayes, Pro-Treaty TD, Cabinet Minister, Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann member (d.1976).
24 December – Patrick MacGill, journalist, poet and novelist (d.1963).

9 February – Peter Lalor, leader of the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Australia (b.1827).
29 February – Richard Pigott, newspaper editor.
16 March – Hans Crocker, lawyer and Wisconsin politician (b.1815).
13 April – Thomas Lane, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1860 at the Taku Forts, China (b.1836).
10 May – Edward Jennings, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (b. c1820).
19 July – Patrick Green, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (b.1824).
6 October – Hans Garrett Moore, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1877 at Komgha, South Africa (b.1830).
21 October – John Ball, politician, naturalist and Alpine traveller (b.1818).
18 November – William Allingham, poet.
7 December – John Tuigg, third Roman Catholic Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b.1828).

^ Edward Carson. A.T.Q. Stewart, Gill’s Irish Lives, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1981
^ Ferris, T (1993). The Irish Narrow Gauge (Volume 2, The Ulster Lines). Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-017-6.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. pp. 151–152. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.