Arts and Literature
- 16 December - The Imperial Copyright Act (coming into effect in 1912) confirms the library of Trinity College, Dublin, as one of the six in the U.K. entitled to be given by legal deposit a copy of every British publication.
- Publication of Patrick MacGill's Songs of a Navvy.
- Publication of Adam Lynn's Ulster Scots dialect Random Rhymes frae Cullybackey.
- Publication of W. F. Marshall's poems Ulster Sails West, including "Hi Uncle Sam!"
- Publication of the first of George Moore's three-volume Hail and Farewell.
- Publication of Katharine Tynan Hinkson's New Poems.
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