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The first Dáil Éireann is dissolved and the second Dáil convenes
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Court-martial of Terence MacSwiney, Irish Volunteer and Lord Mayor of Cork
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National Literary Society is founded
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Charles Stewart Parnell becomes a Freeman of the city of Dublin
Charles Stewart Parnell (June 27, 1846 ? October 06, 1891) was an Irish political leader and one of the most important figures in 19th century Ireland and the United Kingdom; William Ewart Gladstone thought him the most remarkable person he had ever met. A future Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith, described him as one of the three or four greatest men of the nineteenth century, while Lord Haldane described him as the strongest man the British House of Commons had seen in 150 years. …
National Land League of Mayo is founded
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The Intermediate Education Act grants female students the right to participate in public examinations and to enter into careers and professions
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An Act is passed which allows for tithe payments to be commuted
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The Convention Act bans representative bodies set up to campaign for a change in the law, i.e. putative rivals to the parliament
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Birth of Carolina Oliphant (Lady Nairne), poet and author of many Jacobite songs, including Charlie is my Darling. Her songs are second only in popularity to Burns.
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Treaty of Union between Brittany and France, guaranteeing autonomy for Brittany.
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