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1876 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1876 in Ireland
.
←
1875
1874
1873
1872
1871
1876
in
Ireland
→
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
Centuries:
17th
18th
19th
20th
21st
Decades:
1850s
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s
See also:
1876 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1876
List of years in Ireland
Doorway on
Waterford
quays, depicting the year 1876 and the
royal arms
.
Events
edit
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
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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
edit
Births
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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
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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
edit
1876 in Scotland
1876 in Wales
References
edit
^
Patterson, Edward M. (1962).
The Great Northern Railway of Ireland
. Oakwood Press.