Events
- June - Charles Stewart Parnell marries Kitty O'Shea in Sussex.
- 6 October - Charles Stewart Parnell dies. Up to 200,000 people attend the funeral of the 'Uncrowned King of Ireland.'
- The Balfour Land Act makes more funds available for land purchase and sets up the Congested Districts Board for Ireland.
- Parnellites form the Irish National Federation and win seats in Sligo and Carlow.
- The Irish Daily Independent newspaper is founded. It becomes the Irish Independent in 1905.
- James Stephens, founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, returns home to Ireland after 25 years in exile.
- Michael Davitt, standing as an anti-Parnellite candidate, is defeated by John Redmond in a Waterford by-election.
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