1876 in Ireland

Events from the year 1876 in Ireland.

Events

 * 26 January – Dublin Women's Suffrage Association established.
 * 1 April – Great Northern Railway (Ireland) formed by a merger of the Irish North Western Railway, Northern Railway of Ireland and the Ulster Railway.
 * June – Dublin Artisans' Dwellings Company established.
 * 29 December – Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language established.
 * Return of Owners of Land in Ireland made.
 * St. Michael's Hospital (Dún Laoghaire) established by the Sisters of Mercy.
 * Grangegorman Military Cemetery opens in Dublin.

Arts and literature

 * 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).