1876 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1876 in Ireland.
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
- 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).