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

Henry Albert Hartland's 1876 landscape painting On the moors, Achill Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland Hartland-onthemoors.jpg — 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).

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References

↑ 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.
↑ Patterson, Edward M. (1962). The Great Northern Railway of Ireland. Oakwood Press.
↑ 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.
↑ "Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language". Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature.
↑ "Land Owners in Ireland 1876". Fáilte Romhat. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
↑ "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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[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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