1877 in Ireland

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1850s; 1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s;
See also:	1877 in the United Kingdom; Other events of 1877 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1877 in Ireland.

Events

May – Sophia Jex-Blake qualifies as a Licentiate of the King’s and Queen’s College of Physicians of Ireland (LKQCPI).
1 September – the narrow gauge Ballymena and Larne Railway starts operations in County Antrim, from Larne to Ballyclare for goods traffic.[1]
14 August – National Museum of Ireland established in Dublin.

20 February – T. C. Hammond, Anglican clergyman, Principal of Moore Theological College, Sydney (died 1961).
12 March – Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (died 1927).
17 March – George Gardiner, boxer (died 1954).
2 April – Gus Kelly, cricketer (died 1951).
2 April – Richard Rowley, poet and writer (died 1947).
26 April – Robert Gwynn, cricketer (died 1962).
26 May – Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, feminist, suffragette and writer (died 1946).
12 June – Hugh Godley, 2nd Baron Kilbracken, barrister (died 1950).
20 July – Tom Crean, Antarctic explorer and publican (died 1938).
2 December – Cahir Healy, Nationalist Party MP (died 1970).
15 December – John T. McNicholas, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati and founder of the Catholic Legion of Decency (died 1950).
Full date unknown
- George C. Bennett, Cumann na nGaedheal TD, later Fine Gael and Seanad Éireann member (died 1963).
- Con Lehane, socialist active in the Irish Socialist Republican Party, the Social Democratic Federation and Socialist Party of Great Britain (died 1919).

7 February – John O'Mahony, a founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (born 1816).
1 October – David Moriarty, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kerry (born 1812).

Patterson, Edward M. (1968). The Ballymena Lines. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 61. ISBN 0-7153-4183-9.

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