1876 in Ireland

Events from the year 1876 in Ireland.

1876
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Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
See also: 1876 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1876
List of years in Ireland
Doorway on Waterford quays, depicting the year 1876 and the royal arms.

Events

  • 26 January – Dublin Women's Suffrage Association established.[1]
  • 1 April – Great Northern Railway (Ireland) formed by a merger of the Irish North Western Railway, Northern Railway of Ireland and the Ulster Railway.[2]
  • June – Dublin Artisans' Dwellings Company established.[3]
  • 29 December – Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language established.[4]
  • Return of Owners of Land in Ireland made.[5]
  • St. Michael's Hospital (Dún Laoghaire) established by the Sisters of Mercy.[6]
  • Grangegorman Military Cemetery opens in Dublin.

Arts and literature

Henry Albert Hartland's 1876 landscape painting On the moors, Achill Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland
  • March – George Bernard Shaw moves permanently from Dublin to England.
  • Earliest published version of the song "Molly Malone", in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Song "Rose of Killarney" composed by John Rogers Thomas in the United States.

Sport

  • July – First All Ireland Lawn Tennis Championships held in Dublin.
  • First Ulster Schools' Cup (rugby union) competition.
  • Sports clubs established: Clontarf Cricket Club, Clontarf F.C. (rugby union), Mountmellick Athletic Club, St Finbarr's National Hurling & Football Club (Cork).

Births

  • 5 January – Lucien Bull, pioneer in chronophotography (died 1972 in France).
  • 21 January
    • James Charles Brady, Canadian politician (died 1962 in Canada).
    • James Larkin, trade union leader, socialist and Irish Labour Party TD, in Liverpool (died 1947).
  • 25 February – Philip Graves, journalist and writer (died 1953).
  • 11 April – Paul Henry, artist (died 1958).
  • 14 June – George Townshend, writer, clergyman and Baháʼí (died 1957).
  • 27 June – Gladys Wynne, landscape watercolourist (died 1968).
  • 3 August – Sep Lambert, cricketer (died 1959).
  • 22 October – Feardorcha Ó Conaill, Gaelic scholar (died 1929)
    Full date unknown
    • Cissie Cahalan, trade unionist, feminist and suffragette (died 1948).
    • Frederick James Walker, motor cycle racer (killed at 1914 Isle of Man TT races).

Deaths

  • 15 February – Daniel Pollen, politician, ninth Premier of New Zealand (born 1813).
  • 19 April – William Wilde, surgeon, author and father of Oscar Wilde (born 1815).
  • 7 May – Joseph Philip Ronayne, civil engineer (born 1822).
  • 16 June – Sir Henry Thomas, police magistrate in London (born 1807).
  • 25 June – Myles Keogh, officer in American Civil War, later in U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment, killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (born 1840).
  • 14 July – James Henry, physician, classical scholar and poet (born 1798).

See also

  • 1876 in Scotland
  • 1876 in Wales

References

  1. O'Neill, Marie (1985). "The Dublin Women's Suffrage Association and Its Successors". Dublin Historical Record. 38 (4): 126–140. ISSN 0012-6861. JSTOR 30100670.
  2. Patterson, Edward M. (1962). The Great Northern Railway of Ireland. Oakwood Press.
  3. O'Riordan, Colum (2017-07-28). "Homes for Workers: a 'House and Home' blog – Irish Architectural Archive". Irish Architectural Archive. Archived from the original on 2017-11-04. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  4. "Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language". Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature.
  5. "Land Owners in Ireland 1876". Fáilte Romhat. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
  6. "Annual Review 2004" (PDF). St Vincent's Healthcare Group. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-02. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
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