1881 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1881 in Ireland.
Events
- 16 January â the lowest temperature ever recorded in Ireland, â19.1C (â2.4F) at Markree, County Sligo.[1]
- 3 February â arrest of Michael Davitt.[2]
- 2 March â Protection of Persons and Property (Ireland) Act 1881, a Coercion Act, is passed.[2]
- June â the submarine "Fenian Ram" (Holland Boat No. II), designed by Irish-born John Philip Holland and financed by the American Fenian Brotherhood, is first submersion-tested in New York City.
- 22 August â William Ewart Gladstone's Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881, the second of the Irish Land Acts, secures the three "f"s (fair rents, fixity of tenure and freedom of sale),[3] and gives the courts the authority to reconsider judicial rents every three years and to adjust them in line with shifts in agricultural prices.[4]
- 13 October â arrest of Charles Stewart Parnell and other leaders.[2]
- 18 October â No Rent Manifesto.[2]
- 19 October â Irish National Land League proclaimed as an unlawful association.[2]
Date unknown
- Sirocco Works, an engineering firm was founded in Belfast by Samuel Cleland Davidson.[5]
- Kilmacud Monastery established by Carmelite nuns.
- Approximate date â St John Ambulance Ireland establishes its first centre, in Dublin.
Arts and literature
- June â Oscar Wilde's Poems published in London.[6]
Sport
Football
- Irish Cup
- Winners: Moyola Park 1â0 Cliftonville (first ever Irish Cup winners)
Golf
- 9 November â Royal Belfast Golf Club founded, the oldest in Ireland.[7]
Births
- 23 January â William O'Brien, politician and trade unionist (died 1968).
- 10 February â Ken McArthur, winner of the marathon race at the 1912 Summer Olympics for South Africa (died 1960).
- 15 February â Piaras BéaslaÃ, member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, member of Dáil Ãireann, author, playwright, biographer and translator (died 1965).
- 14 March â Robert Barton, Sinn Féin MP, Cabinet Minister and signatory of Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 (died 1975).
- 21 March â Seán O'Hegarty, Irish Republican Army member during the Irish War of Independence (died 1963).
- 25 March â Moya Llewelyn Davies, born Mary Elizabeth O'Connor, Republican activist and Gaelic scholar (died 1943).
- 28 March â Martin Sheridan, Olympic gold medallist for the United States (died 1918).
- 10 April â William John Leech, painter (died 1968).
- 24 April â John Joe O'Reilly, Cumann na nGaedheal and Fine Gael TD (died 1967).
- 5 May â Horace de Vere Cole, prankster (died 1936 in France)
- 20 May â Robert Gregory, cricketer, artist and airman (shot down 1918 in Italy).
- 26 July â James Cecil Parke, international rugby player, tennis player, golfer and Olympic medallist (died 1946).
- 21 September â Ãamonn Ceannt, nationalist, rebel and Easter Rising leader (executed 1916).
- 13 November
- Con Collins, Sinn Féin MP (died 1937).
- John Tudor Gwynn, cricketer (died 1956).
- 8 December â Padraic Colum, poet, novelist and dramatist (died 1972).
- 25 December â John Dill, British Army field marshal (died 1944 in the United States).
- Full date unknown
- William Conor, artist (died 1968).
- Seumas O'Kelly, journalist and author (died 1918)
Deaths
- 30 January â Anna Maria Hall, novelist (born 1800).
- January â Alfred Elmore, painter (born 1815).
- 5 February â Richard Graves MacDonnell, lawyer, judge and colonial governor (born 1814).
- 1 August â Nathaniel Thomas Hone, cricketer (born 1861).
- 9 September â Robert Carew, 2nd Baron Carew, politician (born 1818).
- 10 October â Richard Turner, iron-founder (born 1798).
- 5 November â Robert Mallet, geologist, civil engineer and inventor (born 1810).
- 7 November â John MacHale, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Irish Nationalist and writer (born 1791).
