Arts and Literature
- December - W. B. Yeats poem The Stolen Child is published.
- Yeats's verse play Mosada
- Edward Dowden's The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley is published.
- George Moore's Confessions of a Young Man and A Drama in Muslin are published.
- Emily Lawless's Hurrish is published.
- T. P. O'Connor's The Parnell Movement is published.
- Dublin University professor G.T. Stokes' Ireland and the Celtic Church is published.
- Rev. J. A. Wylie's History of the Scottish Nation, a valuable resource of Celtic Ireland, begins publication.
- Dublin Lodge of the Theosophical Society is founded.
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