Events
- 19 April - The Guildhall, Londonderry, is largely destroyed by fire.
- 19 May - Work begins on a monument to Charles Stewart Parnell in Upper Sackville Street, Dublin.
- 31 July - Irish Universities Act receives Royal Assent in the Parliament of the UK. This ultimately leads to the establishment of the National University of Ireland and Queen's University of Belfast.
- 8 September - Padraic Pearse opens Scoil Eanna (St. Enda's) school for boys in Cullenswood House, Ranelagh. It would be later moved to the Hermitage, Rathfarnham.
- 11 November - Irish Women's Franchise League is formed with Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington as secretary.
- 29 December - Irish Transport Workers' Union is formed with James Larkin as general secretary.
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