1876 in Ireland

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See also:1876 in the United Kingdom
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Doorway on Waterford quays, depicting the year 1876 and the royal arms.

Events from the year 1876 in Ireland.

Events[]

  • 1 April – Great Northern Railway (Ireland) formed by a merger of the Irish North Western Railway, Northern Railway of Ireland and the Ulster Railway.[1]

Arts and literature[]

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[]

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).
  • 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).
    • George Townshend, writer, clergyman and Baháʼí (died 1957).
    • Frederick James Walker, motor cycle racer (killed at 1914 Isle of Man TT races).
    • Gladys Wynne, landscape painter (died 1968).

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).

References[]

  1. ^ Patterson, Edward M. (1962). The Great Northern Railway of Ireland. Oakwood Press.
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