Events
- 4 March - The first issue of Arthur Griffith and William Rooney's nationalist newspaper, The United Irishman, is published.
- 6 September - The foundation stone of St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, is laid by the Countess of Shaftesbury.
- 11 October - The Second Boer War begins in South Africa. Major John MacBride raises the Irish Transvaal Brigade to aid the Boers. Nationalist Member of Parliament Michael Davitt withdraws from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in protest at the war.
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