Births
- 20 March - Tomás Mac Curtain, Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, murdered on his 36th birthday by the Black and Tans (died 1920).
- March - Nora Barnacle, lover, companion, inspiration and wife of James Joyce (died 1951).
- 12 June - James Somers, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1915 at Gallipoli, Turkey (died 1918).
- 17 June - Patrick Little, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister (died 1963).
- 23 June - Val Harris, soccer player and manager.
- 14 September - Frederick Alfred Pile, soldier and politician (died 1976).
- 4 November - Harry Ferguson, early aviator and developer of the modern agricultural tractor (died 1960).
- 16 December - J. M. Kerrigan, actor (died 1964).
- 17 December - Stanislaus Joyce, scholar and writer, brother of James Joyce, (died 1955).
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