1876 in Ireland

none 1876 thumb|Doorway on Waterford quays, depicting the year 1876 and the royal arms. Events from the year 1876 in Ireland. Events 26 January – Dublin Women's Suffrage Association established.O'Neill Marie The Dublin Women's Suffrage Association and Its Successors Dublin Historical Record 1985 38 30100670 4 126–140 0012-6861 1 April – Great Northern Railway (Ireland) formed by a merger of the Irish North Western Railway, Northern Railway of Ireland and the Ulster Railway.Edward M. Patterson The Great Northern Railway of Ireland Oakwood Press 1962 June – Dublin Artisans' Dwellings Company established.O'Riordan Colum 2017-07-28 Homes for Workers: a 'House and Home' blog – Irish Architectural Archive https://iarc.ie/homes-for-workers-a-house-and-home-blog/ 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 29 December – Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language established."Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language". Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Return of Owners of Land in Ireland made.Land Owners in Ireland 1876 https://www.failteromhat.com/lo1876all.php Fáilte Romhat 2024-04-11 St. Michael's Hospital (Dún Laoghaire) established by the Sisters of Mercy.http://www.stvincents.ie/documents/SVUHARExecutive04.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20170802124552/http://www.stvincents.ie/documents/SVUHARExecutive04.pdf 2017-08-02 Annual Review 2004 St Vincent's Healthcare Group 2019-05-17 Grangegorman Military Cemetery opens in Dublin. Arts and literature thumb|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 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 References Category:1870s in Ireland Ireland Category:Years of the 19th century in Ireland Ireland