Events
- 20 April - First of many "monster meetings" of tenant farmers held in Irishtown near Claremorris, County Mayo.
- 8 June - Charles Stewart Parnell at Westport, County Mayo meeting.
- 21 June - New Roman Catholic Thurles Cathedral consecrated.
- 16 August - Land League of Mayo founded at Castlebar.
- 21 August - Claimed apparation at Knock, County Mayo, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Joseph, Saint John the Evangelist and Jesus Christ (as the Lamb of God).
- 21 October - Irish National Land League founded at Dublin.
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