1880 in Ireland

none 1880 Events from the year 1880 in Ireland. Events 2 February – Charles Stewart Parnell addresses the United States Congress.Moody, T. W. Martin, F. X. 1967 The Course of Irish History Mercier Press Cork 378 31 March–27 April – United Kingdom general election in Ireland produces a majority for the nationalist Irish Parliamentary Party in Irish seats. 27 April – charter founding the Royal University of Ireland, https://www.universityofgalway.ie/governance/legislationstatutesregulations/legislation/ universityofgalway.ie University of Galway Founding Legislation 2026-10-06 allowing the Catholic University of Ireland to re-form as University College Dublin. 17 May – Parnell elected chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party. May – Irish National Land League of the United States founded. September–November – "Boycotting" of Captain Charles Boycott. 18 October – Ballycastle Railway opened between Ballymoney and Ballycastle.Ballycastle Railway Station Ballycastle http://www.ballycastle.info/info/railway/oldrailway.htm 2007-10-27 2014-10-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20141027164706/http://www.ballycastle.info/info/railway/oldrailway.htm dead December – trial of Parnell and others for conspiracy begins. English philanthropists are active in connection with the west of Ireland: Quaker James Hack Tute distributes aid and publishes Irish Distress and its Remedies;Tuke 27 365 heiress Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, offers to advance £250,000 to the authorities for the supply of seed potatoes, forcing the government to take action itself.Edna Healey Edna Healey Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett–, suo jure Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 St Stephen's Green, Dublin, opened as a public park. Arts and literature 9 February – the Theatre Royal, Dublin, burns to the ground. Sport Soccer 18 November – Irish Football Association is founded at the Queen's Hotel, Belfast.Hayes, Dean 2006 Northern Ireland International Football Facts Appletree Press Belfast 0-86281-874-5 5 Irish Cup knock-out competition instituted on an all-Ireland basis. Births 3 January – Francis Browne, Jesuit priest and photographer (died 1960). 6 January – John McKenna, traditional flute player (died 1947 in the United States) 12 January – Frank Fahy, Sinn Féin MP and later TD, member of First Dáil, Ceann Comhairle, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1953). 23 January – Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, Unionist politician (died 1950). 9 February – Tom Kettle, writer, barrister, Nationalist politician and economist (killed in action 1916). 20 February – J. J. Walsh, Sinn Féin MP, member of First Dáil, a founder-member of Cumann na nGaedheal and Cabinet Minister (died 1948). 29 March – Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, British politician and businessman (assassinated in Cairo by the Zionist group Lehi (Stern Gang) 1944), born at Iveagh House, Dublin. 30 March – Seán O'Casey, dramatist and memoirist (died 1964). 26 April – Joseph Lynch, cricketer (died 1915). 6 June – W. T. Cosgrave, first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (died 1965). 13 June – John Dignan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clonfert (died 1953). 2 July – Mary Elizabeth Byrne, literary scholar (died 1931). 19 August – Augusta Crichton-Stuart, Marchioness of Bute (died 1947). 24 August – William Kenny, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1914 near Ypres, Belgium (died 1936). 23 September – Áine Ceannt, born Frances Brennan, revolutionary activist and humanitarian (died 1954). 4 October – Sim Walton, Kilkenny hurler (died 1966). 23 October – Una O'Connor, actress (died 1959). 3 November – Edward Barrett, athlete, wrestler and hurler, Olympic medallist. Deaths 6 February – Myles William Patrick O'Reilly, Catholic soldier and writer (born 1825). 26 February – Charles William Russell, Roman Catholic clergyman and scholar (born 1812). 2 March – John Benjamin Macneill, railway engineer (born 1793). 16 April – Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, barrister and writer (born 1819). 7 June – John Brougham, actor and dramatist (born 1814). 12 September – Frederic Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown, peer (born 1804). 18 October – Ann Jellicoe, educationalist (born 1823). 20 December – Joshua Spencer Thompson, Liberal-Conservative politician in Canada (born 1828). See also 1880 in Scotland 1880 in Wales References Category:1880s in Ireland Ireland Category:Years of the 19th century in Ireland