1881 in Ireland

1881 in Ireland

Events

*16 January - The lowest temperature ever recorded in Ireland, -19.1C (-2.4F) at Markree, County Sligo [ [http://www.met.ie/climate/temperature.asp Met Office] ] .
*3 February - Arrest of Michael Davitt.cite book | last=Moody, TW & Martin, FX (eds)| year=1967 |title=The Course of Irish History | publisher=The Mercier Press | location=Cork, Ireland | pages=p 378]
*William Ewart Gladstone’s second Land Act secures the three”f”s (fair rents, fixity of tenure and free sale) ["Edward Carson". A.T.Q. Stewart, Gill’s Irish Lives, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1981] .
*Coercion Acts.
*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.

Arts and literature

port

Football

*Irish Cup::Winners: Moyola Park 1 - 0 Cliftonville (first ever Irish Cup winners)

Births

*23 January - William X. O'Brien, politician and trade unionist (d.1968).
*10 February - Kenneth McArthur, winner of the marathon race at the 1912 Summer Olympics for South Africa (d.1960).
*15 February - Piaras Béaslaí, member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, member of Dáil Éireann, author, playwright, biographer and translator (d.1965).
*21 March - Seán O'Hegarty, Irish Republican Army member during the Irish War of Independence (d.1963).
*28 March - Martin Sheridan, Olympic gold medallist for the United States (d.1918).
*24 April - John Joe O'Reilly, Cumann na nGaedhael and Fine Gael TD (d.1967).
*20 May - Robert Gregory, cricketer and artist (d.1918).
*26 July - James Cecil Parke, international rugby player, tennis player, golfer and Olympic medallist (d.1946).
*21 September - Éamonn Ceannt, nationalist, rebel and Easter Rising leader, executed (d.1916).
*13 November - Con Collins, Sinn Féin MP (d.1937).
*13 November - John Tudor Gwynn, cricketer (d.1956).
*8 December - Padraic Colum, poet, novelist and dramatist (d.1972).

Full date unknown

*Robert Barton, Sinn Féin MP, Cabinet Minister and signatory of Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 (d.1975).
*William Conor, artist (d.1968).
*William John Leech, painter (d.1968).

Deaths

*30 January - Anna Maria Hall, novelist (b.1800).
*January - Alfred Elmore, painter (b.1815).
*5 February - Richard Graves MacDonnell, lawyer, judge and colonial governor (b.1814).
*1 August - Nathaniel Thomas Hone, cricketer (b.1861).
*9 September - Robert Carew, 2nd Baron Carew, politician (b.1818).
*5 November - Robert Mallet, geologist, civil engineer and inventor (b.1810).
*7 November - John McHale, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Irish Nationalist and writer (b.1791).

References


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