Events
- 4 March - The first issue of Arthur Griffith and William Rooney's nationalist newspaper, The United Irishman, is published.
- 6 September - The foundation stone of St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, is laid by the Countess of Shaftesbury.
- 11 October - The Second Boer War begins in South Africa. Major John MacBride raises the Irish Transvaal Brigade to aid the Boers. Nationalist Member of Parliament Michael Davitt withdraws from the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in protest at the war.
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“One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.”
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