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Events

February - Irish Home Rule Movement: Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain founded in Manchester.^[1]
March - Gladstone's Irish University Bill defeated in the House of Commons.^[1]
May 4 - The Roman Catholic St Eugene's Cathedral, Derry, is dedicated.
November 18–21 - Irish Home Rule Movement: The Home Government Association reconstitutes itself as the Home Rule League.

9 January - John Flanagan, three-time Olympic gold medalist in the hammer throw (died 1938).
17 January - T. C. Murray, dramatist (died 1959).
27 January - Alexander Young, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Ruiterskraal, South Africa, killed in action (died 1916).
1 February - John Barry, soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Monument Hill, South Africa (died 1901).
20 March - Cecil Lowry-Corry, 6th Earl Belmore, High Sheriff and councillor (died 1949).
29 March (bapt.) - Peig Sayers (Máiréad Sayers), seanchaí (traditional storyteller) (died 1958).
19 April - Thomas Joseph Crean, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Tygerkloof Spruit, South Africa (died 1923).
5 May - Lucius Gwynn, cricketer (died 1902).
18 May - J. B. Fagan, actor-manager (died 1933 in Hollywood)
28 May - D. D. Sheehan, journalist, barrister, author, Irish Parliamentary Party MP, one of four MP's to serve in 16th (Irish) Division in World War I (died 1948).
3 June - Sir John Keane, 5th Baronet, barrister, member of Seanad (died 1956).
14 June - William Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse, soldier (died 1918).

22 July James Cousins, poet and writer (died 1956).
6 August - James O'Mara, Irish Parliamentary Party and Sinn Féin MP (died 1948).
2 September - James Duhig, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane (died 1965).
26 September - Annie M. P. Smithson, nurse, novelist, poet and Nationalist (died 1948).
30 October - Dave Gallaher, rugby player for New Zealand, killed at the Battle of Passchendaele (died 1917).
26 November - Tom Sharkey, boxer (died 1953).
5 December - William Crozier, cricketer (died 1916).
9 December - James McCombs, politician in New Zealand (died 1933).
12 December - Lola Ridge, anarchist poet and editor (died 1941).

7 February - Sheridan Le Fanu, novelist (born 1814).
20 February - James Haughton, social reformer and temperance activist (born 1795).
30 March - Richard Church, soldier, military officer and general in the Greek Army (born 1784).
8 April - Charles Irwin, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1824).

1 2 Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 77.

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