Events
- March — The Pan-Celtic Society is founded by William Butler Yeats.
- April — Pope Leo XIII issues a decree denouncing the "Plan of Campaign" as the Holy Office issued a rescript to the Bishops of Ireland to boycott the Campaign. This is ignored by many.
- 4 June–27 October — Irish Exhibition at Olympia (London).
- 20 August — The Christian Brothers College is founded in Cork.
- September — James Joyce enters the Clongowes Wood College as the school's youngest student.
- Irish members of the British House of Commons attempt to introduce an Irish Local Government Bill; however the Bill is opposed by Chief Secretary Arthur Balfour.
- Belfast is awarded city status by Queen Victoria.
- The Belfast Central Library is founded.
- A large flock of 110 Pallas's Sandgrouse, a rare species of birds in Ireland, is recorded, one of the last known migrations witnessed in Ireland.
- W. B. Yeats joins the Esoteric Section of Theosophistical Society.
- James Daly sells the Connaught Telegraph to employee T. H. Gillespie.
- Thomas Lindsay Buick becomes Secretary of the Gladstone branch of the Irish National League.
- Reverend Henry Lett publishes a research paper on several unknown forms of fungi found in Ulster; however this document, as well as other research by Lett, were later lost.
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