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Events from the year 1891 in Ireland.

Events

  • March – Anti-Parnellites form the Irish National Federation and win seats in Sligo and Carlow.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Arts and literature

  • April – Oscar Wilde publishes The Picture of Dorian Gray in book form.
  • October – 9-year-old James Joyce writes a poem in memory of Parnell later entitled Et tu, Healy which his father has printed as a broadside.
  • Standish James O'Grady publishes Finn and his Companions.

Sport

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Football

  • International
  • :7 February Ireland 7–2 Wales (in Belfast)
  • :7 March England 6–1 Ireland (in Wolverhampton)