Arts and Literature
- William Ewart Gladstone publishes Handbook of Home Rule.
- Michael Davitt publishes Revival of the Irish Woollen Industry: Brief Historical Record: How England Endeavoured to Destroy Irish Manufacture: How Irish Leaders Propose to Accomplish its Revival
- William Lecky's A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century is published.
- Alex G. Richey's A Short History of the Irish People, Down to the Date of the Plantation of Ulster is published.
- Margaret Stokes publishes Early Christian Art in Ireland.
- Lady Wilde publishes Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland, with Sketches of the Irish Past (later appended to The Ancient Race of Ireland)
- Sir Samuel Ferguson's Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland is published posthumously.
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