1876 in Ireland explained

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).

See also

• 1876 in Scotland
• 1876 in Wales

Notes and References

1. O'Neill . Marie . The Dublin Women's Suffrage Association and Its Successors . Dublin Historical Record . 1985 . 38 . 30100670 . 4 . 126–140 . 0012-6861.
2. Book: Patterson, Edward M.. The Great Northern Railway of Ireland. Oakwood Press. 1962.
3. Web site: O'Riordan. Colum. 2017-07-28. Homes for Workers: a ‘House and Home’ blog – Irish Architectural Archive. live. 2021-10-21. Irish Architectural Archive. en-GB. https://web.archive.org/web/20171104215925/https://iarc.ie/homes-for-workers-a-house-and-home-blog/ . 2017-11-04.
4. http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100515670 "Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language". Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature.
5. Web site: Land Owners in Ireland 1876. Fáilte Romhat. 2024-04-11.
6. Web site: Annual Review 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20170802124552/http://www.stvincents.ie/documents/SVUHARExecutive04.pdf. 2017-08-02. St Vincent's Healthcare Group. 2019-05-17.