1881 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1881 in Ireland.

Events

16 January – the lowest temperature ever recorded in Ireland, −19.1C (−2.4F) at Markree, County Sligo.^[1]
3 February – arrest of Michael Davitt.^[2]
William Ewart Gladstone's second Land Act 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]
June – 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.
Coercion Acts.^[2]
October – arrest of Charles Stewart Parnell and other leaders.^[2]
18 October – No Rent Manifesto.^[2]
19 October – Irish National Land League proclaimed as an unlawful association.^[2]
Kilmacud Monastery established by Carmelite nuns.
Approximate date – St John Ambulance Ireland establishes its first centre, in Dublin.

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

Irish Cup
Winners: Moyola Park 1–0 Cliftonville (first ever Irish Cup winners)

Golf

9 November – Royal Belfast Golf Club founded, the oldest in Ireland.^[5]

Births

23 January – William O'Brien, politician and trade unionist (died 1968).
10 February – Ken McArthur, winner of the marathon race at the 1912 Summer Olympics for South Africa (died 1960).
15 February – Piaras Béaslaí, member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, member of Dáil Éireann, author, playwright, biographer and translator (died 1965).
14 March – Robert Barton, Sinn Féin MP, Cabinet Minister and signatory of Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 (died 1975).
21 March – Seán O'Hegarty, Irish Republican Army member during the Irish War of Independence (died 1963).
25 March – Moya Llewelyn Davies, born Mary Elizabeth O'Connor, Republican activist and Gaelic scholar (died 1943).
28 March – Martin Sheridan, Olympic gold medallist for the United States (died 1918).
10 April – William John Leech, painter (died 1968).
24 April – John Joe O'Reilly, Cumann na nGaedheal and Fine Gael TD (died 1967).
20 May – Robert Gregory, cricketer, artist and airman (shot down 1918 in Italy).
26 July – James Cecil Parke, international rugby player, tennis player, golfer and Olympic medallist (died 1946).
21 September – Éamonn 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 – Padraic Colum, poet, novelist and dramatist (died 1972).
25 December – 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 – Anna Maria Hall, novelist (born 1800).
January – Alfred Elmore, painter (born 1815).
5 February – Richard Graves MacDonnell, lawyer, judge and colonial governor (born 1814).
1 August – Nathaniel Thomas Hone, cricketer (born 1861).
9 September – Robert Carew, 2nd Baron Carew, politician (born 1818).
10 October – Richard Turner, iron-founder (born 1798).
5 November – Robert Mallet, geologist, civil engineer and inventor (born 1810).
7 November – John MacHale, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Irish Nationalist and writer (born 1791).

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References

↑ "Temperature in Ireland". Met Éireann. Archived from the original on 2019-01-07. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
1 2 3 4 5 Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 378.
↑ Stewart, A. T. Q. (1981). Edward Carson. Gill's Irish Lives. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
↑ Hill, Myrtle; Lynch, John. "Ireland: society & economy, 1870–1914". Multitext Project in Irish History. University College Cork. Archived from the original on 2010-09-10. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
↑ "Royal Belfast Golf Club". Coleraine: The Golf PA.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-12-30.

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[1] "Temperature in Ireland". Met Éireann. Archived from the original on 2019-01-07. Retrieved 2012-07-21.

[TM-2] 1 2 3 4 5 Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 378.

[3] Stewart, A. T. Q. (1981). Edward Carson. Gill's Irish Lives. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.

[4] Hill, Myrtle; Lynch, John. "Ireland: society & economy, 1870–1914". Multitext Project in Irish History. University College Cork. Archived from the original on 2010-09-10. Retrieved 2012-07-21.

[5] "Royal Belfast Golf Club". Coleraine: The Golf PA.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-12-30.

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