Events
- January - Ulster Protestant Unionists begin to lobby against the Irish Home Rule Bill, establishing the Ulster Loyal Anti-Repeal Union in Belfast.
- March - Prime Minister William Gladstone announces his support for Irish Home Rule.
- 8 April - Gladstone introduces the Irish Home Rule Bill in the House of Commons. During the debates on the Bill
- Financial Secretary to the Treasury H.H. Fowler states his support for the Bill which in his words would bring about a "real Union—not an act of Parliament Union—but a moral Union, a Union of heart and soul between two Sister Nations".
- Lord Randolph Churchill voices his opposition with the slogan "Ulster will fight, Ulster will be right".
- 8 June - The First Home Rule Bill fails to pass the British Parliament on a vote of 343-313.
- June - Protestants celebrate the defeat of the Home Rule Bill, leading to renewed rioting on the streets of Belfast and the deaths of seven people, with many more injured.
- 12 June - In a statement to Parliament, Gladstone calls for a general election and, with the dissolution of Parliament, an official election is held the next month.
- 12 July–mid-September - Belfast riots: Beginning with the Orange Institution parades and continuing sporadically throughout the summer, clashes take place between Catholics and Protestants, and also between Loyalists and police. Thirteen people are killed in a weekend of serious rioting, with an official death toll of 31 people over the period.
- October - The first tenant farmers are evicted during the first year of the Plan of Campaign.
- 30 November - Maud Gonne's father dies leaving her a substantial inheritance ensuring her financial independence.
- St Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Dublin is officially elevated to Pro-cathedral status.
- Eason & Son, booksellers and stationers, established in Dublin.
- The 1886 Tramways Act allows the Board of Works to grant loans to railway companies including £54,400 to the West Clare Railway one of the first railways to be built in western Ireland.
- Charles Cunningham Boycott, who supposedly gave rise to the eponymous word, leaves his land agent's post in Ireland.
- J. M. Synge joins the Dublin Naturalist's Field Club.
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