Events from the year 1887 in Ireland. Events 29 January – the Dublin newspaper The Union is founded. The Unionist newspaper's goals are stated in its first edition as "A Journal devoted to the maintenance of the Union in the three kingdoms." Richard Moynan begins as a political illustrator with the paper in April. 7 March – 18 April: The Times publishes a series of articles on "Parnellism and Crime" quoting letters implicating Charles Stewart Parnell of involvement in illegal activities, in particular, support for the 1882 Phoenix Park Murders. A special commission, known as the "Parnell Commission", is proposed to investigate the allegations, as well as investigate links between the Home Rule party and the Fenians, eventually (in 1890) proving the letters forgeries written by Richard Pigott. 29 March – the Irish Crimes Act of 1887 is introduced by Arthur Balfour in response to the boycott of certain landlords by their tenants (led by the National Land League), suspending the right to trial of people suspected of involvement in the boycott. The Crimes Act is passed in September, despite protests from Liberal and Home Rule Members of Parliament, and will continue in force until 1890. 19 April – W. E. Gladstone, Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom), delivers his speech on the 'Irish question'. 30 April – Michael Logue translated from Raphoe as coadjutor archbishop of Armagh; on the death of Daniel McGettigan on 3 December he succeeds as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, the office which he will hold until his death in 1924. 2 May – the narrow gauge Clogher Valley Railway officially opens in County Tyrone. 26 June – the highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland, 33.3C (91.9F) at Kilkenny Castle. 16 August – opening of an industrial fishing school for boys at Baltimore, County Cork, founded by the parish priest Father Charles Davis and sponsored by English heiress and philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts. 9 September – Mitchelstown Massacre: Three men killed by the Royal Irish Constabulary at a Land League demonstration. 13 November – Bloody Sunday: Police in London clash with radical and Irish nationalist protesters. Royal Irish Constabulary attack a Land League march in Kiltimagh, County Mayo. Arthur Balfour becomes Chief Secretary later enacting the policy of "killing Home Rule with kindness". Balfour's Land Law Act, an extension of the Ashbourne Act of 1885, is passed by