411 REFERENCE · Wikipedia
1881 in Ireland
Reference material by Wikipedia contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
none
1881
Events from the year 1881 in Ireland.
Events
16 January – the lowest temperature ever recorded in Ireland, −19.1C (−2.4F) at Markree, County Sligo.Temperature in Ireland http://www.met.ie/climate/temperature.asp Met Éireann 2012-07-21 2019-01-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20190107003129/https://www.met.ie/climate/temperature.asp%20 dead
3 February – arrest of Michael Davitt.Moody, T. W. Martin, F. X. 1967 The Course of Irish History Mercier Press Cork 378
2 March – Protection of Persons and Property (Ireland) Act 1881, a Coercion Act, is passed.
June – the submarine "Fenian Ram" (Holland Boat No. II), designed by Irish-born John Philip Holland and financed by the American Fenian Brotherhood, is first submersion-tested in New York City.
22 August – William Ewart Gladstone's Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881, the second of the Irish Land Acts, secures the three "f"s (fair rents, fixity of tenure and freedom of sale),Edward Carson A. T. Q. Stewart Gill's Irish Lives Gill & Macmillan Dublin 1981 and gives the courts the authority to reconsider judicial rents every three years and to adjust them in line with shifts in agricultural prices.Myrtle Hill John Lynch Ireland: society & economy, 1870–1914 http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Ireland_society__economy_1870-1914 Multitext Project in Irish History University College Cork 2012-07-21 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20100910205309/http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Ireland_society__economy_1870-1914 2010-09-10
13 October – arrest of Charles Stewart Parnell and other leaders.
18 October – No Rent Manifesto.
19 October – Irish National Land League proclaimed as an unlawful association.
Date unknown
Sirocco Works, an engineering firm was founded in Belfast by Samuel Cleland Davidson.2021-11-24 Industrialist who ran a tea estate in India, then returned to found Sirocco https://www.newsletter.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/industrialist-who-ran-a-tea-estate-in-india-then-returned-to-found-sirocco-3469456 2025-02-17 Belfast News Letter en
Kilmacud Monastery established by Carmelite nuns.
Approximate date – St John Ambulance Ireland establishes its first centre, in Dublin.
Arts and literature
June – Oscar Wilde's Poems published in London.Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Sport
Football
Irish Cup
Winners: Moyola Park 1–0 Cliftonville (first ever Irish Cup winners)
Golf
9 November – Royal Belfast Golf Club founded, the oldest in Ireland.Royal Belfast Golf Club http://www.thegolfpa.com/courses-royal-belfast.aspx The Golf PA.com Coleraine 2012-12-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233649/http://www.thegolfpa.com/courses-royal-belfast.aspx 2016-03-03 dead
Births
23 January – William O'Brien, politician and trade unionist (died 1968).
10 February – Ken McArthur, winner of the marathon race at the 1912 Summer Olympics for South Africa (died 1960).
15 February – Piaras Béaslaí, member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, member of Dáil Éireann, author, playwright, biographer and translator (died 1965).
14 March – Robert Barton, Sinn Féin MP, Cabinet Minister and signatory of Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 (died 1975).
21 March – Seán O'Hegarty, Irish Republican Army member during the Irish War of Independence (died 1963).
25 March – Moya Llewelyn Davies, born Mary Elizabeth O'Connor, Republican activist and Gaelic scholar (died 1943).
28 March – Martin Sheridan, Olympic gold medallist for the United States (died 1918).
10 April – William John Leech, painter (died 1968).
24 April – John Joe O'Reilly, Cumann na nGaedheal and Fine Gael TD (died 1967).
5 May – Horace de Vere Cole, prankster (died 1936 in France)
20 May – Robert Gregory, cricketer, artist and airman (shot down 1918 in Italy).
26 July – James Cecil Parke, international rugby player, tennis player, golfer and Olympic medallist (died 1946).
21 September – Éamonn Ceannt, nationalist, rebel and Easter Rising leader (executed 1916).
13 November
Con Collins, Sinn Féin MP (died 1937).
John Tudor Gwynn, cricketer (died 1956).
8 December – Padraic Colum, poet, novelist and dramatist (died 1972).
25 December – John Dill, British Army field marshal (died 1944 in the United States).
Full date unknown
William Conor, artist (died 1968).
Seumas O'Kelly, journalist and author (died 1918)
Deaths
30 January – Anna Maria Hall, novelist (born 1800).
January – Alfred Elmore, painter (born 1815).
5 February – Richard Graves MacDonnell, lawyer, judge and colonial governor (born 1814).
1 August – Nathaniel Thomas Hone, cricketer (born 1861).
9 September – Robert Carew, 2nd Baron Carew, politician (born 1818).
10 October – Richard Turner, iron-founder (born 1798).
5 November – Robert Mallet, geologist, civil engineer and inventor (born 1810).
7 November – John MacHale, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Irish Nationalist and writer (born 1791).
See also
1881 in Scotland
1881 in Wales
References
Category:1880s in Ireland
Category:Years of the 19th century in Ireland
Ireland
Ireland