Events
- 3 February - Count George Noble Plunkett, father of Joseph Mary Plunkett, wins Roscommon North on an abstentionist Sinn Féin platform.
- 25 February - RMS Laconia (1911) sunk by Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-50 6 mi (9.7 km) northwest of Fastnet Rock; twelve killed.
- 7 March - David Lloyd-George announces that Britain is ready to confer self-government to the parts of Ireland that want it. The north-eastern part will not be "coerced".
- 12 March - In the British House of Commons, J. P. Farrell proposes that Ireland be excluded from the operation of the National Services Act.
- 20 March - A motion to reduce the salary of the British Prime Minister by £100 is introduced in the British House of Commons as a protest against the refusal to publish the proceedings of the 1916 Rising courts martial.
- 10 May - Sinn Féin candidate Joseph McGuinness wins a by-election in South-Longford against the Irish Parliamentary Party's candidate McKenna. It is a political disaster for John Redmond and his Party.
- 16 May - British Prime Minister, David Lloyd-George, announces that he wants immediate Home Rule for the 26 counties. Six north-eastern counties are to be excluded for a period of five years.
- 16 June - Oiler Batoum sunk by U-boat 6 mi (9.7 km) south of Fastnet Rock.
- 18 June - Prisoners taken during the Easter Rising arrive at Dún Laoghaire by mailboat.
- 10 July - Éamon de Valera of Sinn Féin beats Patrick Lynch, at this time an Irish Parliamentary Party Home Rule candidate, in the East Clare by-election caused by the death on active service of Willie Redmond. One Dublin Castle official calls it 'the most important election that has ever taken place, or ever will, in Irish history.'
- 16 July - The Round Room in the Mansion House, Dublin, is filled to capacity as the leaders of Sinn Féin demand the bodies of the Easter Rising leaders so that they can be given a Christian burial.
- 25 July - Large crowds assemble at College Green in Dublin as the Irish Convention meets for the first time.
- August - W. T. Cosgrave elected for Sinn Féin in a by-election in Kilkenny.
- 10 September - Imperial German Navy U-boat SM UC-42 is sunk in Cork Harbour, probably by one of her own mines, with the loss of 26 crew.
- 25 October - 1,700 Sinn Féin delegates attend a convention in the Mansion House and De Valera replaces Arthur Griffith as the organisation's president.
- 17 November - Action of 17 November 1917: Queenstown-based United States Navy destroyers USS Fanning and USS Nicholson capture Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-58 which is scuttled off Kinsale.
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