Ireland

Special inquiry into the Phoenix Park murders, in which Parnell is falsely implicated

The Phoenix Park Murders were the fatal stabbings of Lord Frederick Cavendish, the newly appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland and Thomas Henry Burke, the Permanent Undersecretary in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland, on 6 May 1882.

The Irish Nationalist League is founded

Eamon de Valera, Fianna Fáil leader, Taoiseach and president of Ireland, is born in Brooklyn, NY

Éamon de Valera, nationalist leader, founder of Fianna Fáil, Taoiseach, and later President of Ireland, is born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 14, 1882, to an Irish mother, Catherine Coll, and a Spanish father, Juan Vivion de Valera.

Birth of Sean O Ceallaigh, Irelands second president

Birth in Gloucester of Arthur Luce, a professor of philosophy and fellow of Trinity College in Dublin for 65 years

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.

Unveiling of OConnell monument in Dublin

In Liverpool, Mayo native-son and hero, Michael Davitt, advocates land nationalization in preference to peasant proprietorship

Creighton Hale, actor, is born in Cork

Phoenix Park murders, The assassination Lord Frederick Cavendish, and T.H. Burke