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| 1886 |
| | Those in Britain's Liberal party opposing Home Rule for Ireland become a separate group under the name of Unionists | |
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| 1889 |
| | 23-year-old Irish author William Butler Yeats publishes his first volume of poems, The Wanderings of Oisin | |
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| 1889 |
| | Charles Steward Parnell is cited as co-respondent in a divorce case brought against Kitty O'Shea | |
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| 1892 |
| | W.B. Yeats founds the National Literary Society in Dublin, with Douglas Hyde as its first president | |
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| 1892 |
| | W.B. Yeats publishes a short play The Countess Cathleen, his first contribution to Irish poetic drama | |
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| 1893 |
| | Gladstone finally gets a Home Rule bill through the Commons, only to have it rejected in the Lords | |
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| 1893 |
| | The Gaelic League is founded to restore the use of Gaelic as Ireland's spoken language | |
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| 1900 |
| | The Irish Parliamentary Party, which split after the Parnell divorce case, reunites under the leadership of John Redmond | |
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| 1902 |
| | The play Cathleen ni Houlihan, by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, fosters Irish nationalism | |
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| 1902 |
| | Irish politician Arthur Griffith launches Sinn Fein, as an organization campaigning for a strong and independent Ireland | |
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