• January – the National Labour League, a predecessor of the Irish Land and Labour Association, is founded in Kanturk, County Cork.^[1]
• 19 January – Michael Logue is created a cardinal, the first Archbishop of Armagh to be so elevated.
• February – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom W. E. Gladstone introduces his second Home Rule Bill to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, where it is passed.^[2] The biggest opposition to Home Rule manifests itself in Ulster, particularly amongst Protestants.
• 26 April – Edward Carson is called to the English Bar at the Middle Temple^[2]
• 19 May – the neoclassical Roman Catholic St Mel's cathedral, Longford (foundation stone laid 1840 and opened for worship in 1856), is consecrated.^[3]
• 31 July – Douglas Hyde, Eoin MacNeill, Eugene O'Growney and Thomas O'Neill Russell establish the Gaelic League to encourage the preservation of Irish culture, with Hyde becoming its first president.^[4]
• 8 September – Gladstone's second Home Rule Bill is rejected by the House of Lords.^[2]
• The Girls' Brigade is founded in Dublin, origin of the international Christian youth organisation.^[5]

• 19 April – Oscar Wilde stages A Woman of No Importance in London.
• December – W. B. Yeats publishes The Celtic Twilight, giving a popular name to the Irish Literary Revival.^[6]
• Douglas Hyde publishes Love Songs of Connacht.

Football edit

• International

  25 February England 6–1 Ireland (in Birmingham)^[7]

  25 March Scotland 6–1 Ireland (in Glasgow)^[7]

  5 April Ireland 4–3 Wales (in Belfast)^[7]

• Irish League

  Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

  Winners: Linfield 5–1 Cliftonville

• Derry Olympic becomes defunct after only one season in the Irish Football League.

Golf edit

• Ormeau Golf Club in Belfast and Ballybunion Golf Club are formed.

Hockey edit

• Irish Hockey Union was formed on 6 February.

• 26 January – Kitty Kiernan, fiancée of Michael Collins (died 1945)
• 5 February – John Lymbrick Esmonde, soldier, Fine Gael TD (died 1958).
• 22 February – Peadar O'Donnell, Irish Republican socialist, Marxist activist and writer (died 1986).
• 6 March – Denis Rolleston Gwynn, journalist, author and professor of modern Irish history (died 1973).
• 4 April – Dick McKee, Irish Republican Army member in Easter Rising (shot by Crown forces 1920).
• 14 May – George McElroy, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force pilot during World War I (killed in action 1918).
• 9 June – Cathal O'Shannon, politician, trade unionist and journalist (died 1969).
• 14 June – Séamus Burke, Sinn Féin TD, a founder-member of Cumann na nGaedheal and later Fine Gael (died 1967).
• 26 July – E. R. Dodds, classical scholar (died 1973).
• 10 August – Mick O'Brien, soccer player and manager (died 1940).
• 30 September – Seán MacEoin, major general, Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister (died 1973).
• 13 October – Seán Russell, Irish republican and a chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (died 1940 at sea).
• 26 October – Thomas MacGreevy, poet and director of the National Gallery of Ireland (died 1967).
• 1 November – Neal Blaney, Fianna Fáil TD, Seanad member (died 1948).
• 9 November – Liam Lynch, commanding general of the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army during the Irish Civil War (shot and killed 1923).
• 20 December
  • Eddie Duffy, traditional Irish musician (died 1986).
  • Billy McCandless, footballer and football manager (died 1955).

  Full date unknown

  • Tomás Bairéad, journalist and author (died 1973).
  • Frank Gallagher, Irish Volunteer and author (died 1962).
  • Mick Kenny, Galway hurler (died 1959).
  • Harry Midgley, Northern Ireland Labour Party member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and alderman of Belfast (died 1957).

• 3 March – Hugh Nelson, politician in Canada and Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia (born 1830).
• 16 April – William Davis Ardagh, lawyer, judge and politician in Canada (born 1828).
• 27 April – John Ballance, 14th Premier of New Zealand (born 1839).
• 5 September – Mike Cleary, boxer (born 1858).
• 8 November – Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, geographer (born 1815).
• 28 December – James Donnelly, Bishop of the Diocese of Clogher (born 1823).

• 1893 in Scotland
• 1893 in Wales