Events
- April 4 - 25,000 National Volunteers assemble at the Phoenix Park, Dublin. John Redmond takes the salute from under the statue of Charles Stewart Parnell on Sackville Street.
- April 5 - At the National Volunteers convention at the Mansion House, Dublin, John Redmond praises their response to World War I.
- May 7 - The RMS Lusitania is torpedoed by German submarines about eight miles off the coast of Kinsale, County Cork while en route from New York to Liverpool: 1,195 lives are lost.
- May 25 - The British Prime Minister appoints a national wartime coalition of twelve Liberals, eight Unionists and one Labour member. In Dublin the Irish Parliamentary Party approves John Redmond's decision not to join.
- July 29 - Republicans, led by Patrick Pearse, take over the Gaelic League at its Dundalk conference. Douglas Hyde resigns as its President.
- August 1 - O'Donovan Rossa is buried at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, and Pearse delivers the graveside oration.
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