1876 in Ireland
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![](../I/m/1876_doorway_Waterford.jpg)
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
![](../I/m/Hartland-onthemoors.jpg)
Henry Albert Hartland's 1876 landscape painting On the moors, Achill Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland
Births
- 5 January – Lucien Bull, pioneer in chronophotography (died 1972).
- 21 January
- James Larkin, trade union leader, socialist and Irish Labour Party TD (died 1947).
- James Charles Brady, Canadian politician
- 25 February – Philip Graves, journalist and writer (died 1953).
- 11 April – Paul Henry, artist (died 1958).
- 3 August – Sep Lambert, cricketer (died 1959).
- Full date unknown
- Cissie Cahalan, trade unionist, feminist and suffragette (died 1948).
- George Townshend, writer, former clergyman and Bahá'í (died 1957).
- Frederick James Walker, motor cycle racer, killed at 1914 Isle of Man TT races (died 1914).
- Gladys Wynne, artist (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
- ↑ Patterson, Edward M. (1962). The Great Northern Railway of Ireland. Oakwood Press.
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