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2 February - Charles Stewart Parnell addresses the United States Congress.^[1]
31 March – 27 April - United Kingdom general election in Ireland^[1] produces a majority for the Irish Parliamentary Party in Irish seats.
27 April - Charter founding the Royal University of Ireland,^[1] allowing the Catholic University of Ireland to re-form as University College Dublin.
17 May - Parnell elected chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party.^[1]
May - Irish National Land League of the United States founded.^[1]
September - November - "Boycotting" of Captain Charles Boycott.^[1]
18 October - Ballycastle Railway opened between Ballymoney and Ballycastle.^[2]
December - Trial of Parnell and others for conspiracy begins.^[1]
English heiress and philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, offers to advance £250,000 to the authorities for the supply of seed potatoes in the west of Ireland, forcing the government to take action itself.^[3]

18 November - Irish Football Association is founded at the Queen's Hotel, Belfast.^[4]
Irish Cup knock-out competition instituted on an all-Ireland basis.

3 January - Francis Browne, Jesuit priest and photographer (died 1960).
12 January - Frank Fahy, Sinn Féin MP and later TD, member of 1st Dáil, Ceann Comhairle, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1953).
23 January - Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, Unionist politician (died 1950).
9 February - Thomas Kettle, writer, barrister, Nationalist politician and economist (killed in action 1916).
20 February - James J. Walsh, Sinn Féin MP, member of 1st Dáil, a founder-member of Cumann na nGaedheal and Cabinet Minister (died 1948).
29 March - Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, British politician and businessman (assassinated in Cairo by the Zionist group Lehi (Stern Gang) 1944), born at Iveagh House, Dublin.
30 March - Seán O'Casey, dramatist and memoirist (died 1964).
26 April - Joseph Lynch, cricketer (died 1915).
6 June - W. T. Cosgrave, first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (died 1965).
13 June - John Dignan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clonfert (died 1953).
2 July - Mary Elizabeth Byrne, literary scholar (died 1931).
19 August - Augusta Crichton-Stuart, Marchioness of Bute (died 1947).
24 August - William Kenny, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1914 near Ypres, Belgium (died 1936).
23 October - Una O'Connor, actress (died 1959).
3 November - Edward Barrett, athlete, wrestler and hurler, Olympic medallist.

26 February - Charles William Russell, Roman Catholic clergyman and scholar (born 1812).
2 March - John Benjamin Macneill, railway engineer (born 1793).
16 April - Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, barrister and writer (born 1819).
7 June - John Brougham, actor and dramatist (born 1814).
12 September - Frederic Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown, peer (born 1804).
20 December - Joshua Spencer Thompson, Liberal-Conservative politician in Canada (born 1828).

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 378.
↑ "Ballycastle Railway Station". Ballycastle. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
↑ Healey, Edna (2004). "Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett-, suo jure Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
↑ Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 5. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.

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