Deaths
- 3 February - Thomas Mellon, entrepreneur, lawyer, and judge, founder of Mellon Bank (born 1813).
- 23 March - Frederick Falkiner, lawyer, judge and author (born 1831).
- 10 June - John F. Finerty, U.S. Representative from Illinois (born 1846).
- 6 July - Thomas William Moffett, scholar, educationalist and President of Queen's College Galway (born 1820).
- 5 August - Caesar Litton Falkiner, Irish Unionist Party politician, barrister, writer and historian (born 1863).
- 30 August - Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse, eighteenth Chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin (b.(1840).
- 4 November - John Pinkerton, Irish Parliamentary Party MP (born 1845).
- 15 December - Hugh Annesley, 5th Earl Annesley, British military officer and MP (born 1831).
- 19 December - Thomas Cleeve, founder of Condensed Milk Company of Ireland, High Sheriff of Limerick (born 1844).
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