1882 in Ireland

Events

• 2 May – "Kilmainham Treaty", an agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom under William Ewart Gladstone and the gaoled Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell extending the terms of the Second Irish Land Act to abate tenant rent arrears, is announced in Parliament.
• 6 May – Phoenix Park Murders: Lord Frederick Cavendish, the newly appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, his Permanent Undersecretary, are fatally stabbed in Phoenix Park, Dublin, by members of the "Irish National Invincibles".
• July – James Connolly arrives in Ireland for the first time when his British Army regiment is posted to Cork.

  Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• ;International
• :18 February Ireland 0–13 England. First Irish international match.
• :25 February Wales 7–1 Ireland. First Irish international goal scored by RS Johnston of Distillery.
• ;Irish Cup
• :Winners: Queens Island 1–0 Cliftonville
• Glentoran F.C. established in Belfast.

  Births

• 17 January – Henry George Farmer, musicologist.
• 2 February – James Joyce, writer and poet.
• 9 February – James Stephens, novelist and poet.
• 28 February – Pádraic Ó Conaire, journalist and writer.
• 17 March – Alfie Byrne, Irish Nationalist politician, served both as an MP in the British House of Commons and as a TD in Dáil Éireann.
• 24 April – Jack Rochford, Kilkenny hurler.
• 16 May – Herbert Hughes, musicologist, composer and critic.
• 1 July – Brian O'Higgins, Sinn Féin MP and President.
• 2 August – Bryan Cusack, doctor, Sinn Féin MP, member 1st Dáil.
• 5 August – Anne Acheson, sculptor
• 25 August – Seán T. O'Kelly, founding member of Fianna Fáil, Cabinet Minister and second President of Ireland.
• 17 September – Darrell Figgis, writer, Sinn Féin activist and independent politician.
• 2 October – Dick Fitzgerald, Kerry Gaelic footballer.
• 6 October – William John English, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Vlakfontein, South Africa.
• 11 October – John D'Alton, Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1946 to 1963.
• 14 October – Éamon de Valera, President, Taoiseach and Founder of Fianna Fáil, born in Manhattan, New York.
• 21 October – George Gavan Duffy, barrister, Sinn Féin MP.
• 20 November – John Aston, cricketer.
• 21 November– Thomas J. O'Connell, trade unionist, Labour Party leader, TD and Senator.
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Anthony Mulvey, editor and Nationalist Party MP.
• :*Thomas Sadleir, genealogist.
• :*Estella Solomons, painter.

  Deaths

• 28 February – John Thomas Romney Robinson, astronomer and physicist.
• 7 April – Denis Florence MacCarthy, poet, translator, biographer.
• 17 April – Michael Hannan, Archbishop in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• 6 May – Thomas Henry Burke, Permanent Under Secretary at the Irish Office, assassinated in the Phoenix Park Murders.
• 9 December – Sir Joseph Napier, 1st Baronet, Conservative Party MP and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
• ;Full date unknown
• :*J. J. McCarthy, architect.
• :*Patrick Murray, theologian.