1880 in Ireland

1880 in Ireland

Events

*2 February - Charles Stewart Parnell addresses the United States Congress.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]
*March - April - General election.
*27 April - Charter founding the Royal University of Ireland.
*17 May - Parnell elected chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
*May - Irish National Land League of the United States founded.
*September - November - "Boycotting" of Captain Charles Boycott.
*18 October - Ballycastle Railway opened between Ballymoney and Ballycastle. [cite web | title=Ballycastle Railway Station | work=Ballycastle | url=http://www.ballycastle.free-online.co.uk/info/railway/oldrailway.htm | accessdate=2007-10-27]
*December - Trial of Parnell and others for conspiracy begins.

Arts and literature

port

occer

*18 November - Irish Football Association is founded at the Queen's Hotel, Belfast. [cite book | last=Hayes, Dean| year=2006 |title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts | publisher=Appletree Press | location= Belfast | pages=p 5|isbn=0-86281-874-5]
*Irish Cup knock-out competition instituted on an all-Ireland basis.

Births

*12 January - Frank Fahy, Sinn Féin MP and later TD, member of 1st Dáil, Ceann Comhairle, Fianna Fáil TD (d.1953).
*23 January - Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, Unionist politician (d.1950).
*9 February - Thomas Kettle, writer, barrister, Nationalist politician and economist (d.1916).
*20 February - James J. Walsh, Sinn Féin MP, member of 1st Dáil, a founder-member of Cumann na nGaedhael and Cabinet Minister (d.1948).
*29 March - Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, British politician and businessman, assassinated in Cairo by the Zionist group Lehi (Stern Gang) (d.1944).
*30 March - Seán O'Casey, dramatist and memoirist (d.1964).
*26 April - Joseph Lynch, cricketer (d.1915).
*6 June - W. T. Cosgrave, first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (d.1965).
*19 August - Augusta Crichton-Stuart, Marchioness of Bute (d.1947).
*24 August - William Kenny, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1914 near Ypres, Belgium (d.1936).
*23 October - Una O'Connor, actress (d.1959).
*3 November - Edward Barrett, athlete, wrestler and hurler, Olympic medallist.

Full date unknown

*Hugo Flinn, Fianna Fáil TD (d.1943).
*Sim Walton, Kilkenny hurler (d.1966).

Deaths

*26 February - Charles William Russell, Roman Catholic clergyman and scholar (b.1812).
*2 March - John Benjamin Macneill, railway engineer (b.1793).
*16 April - Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, barrister and writer (b.1819).
*7 June - John Brougham, actor and dramatist (b.1814).
*12 September - Frederic Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown, peer (b.1804).
*20 December - Joshua Spencer Thompson, Liberal-Conservative politician in Canada (b.1828).

Full date unknown

*Ann Jellicoe, educationalist (b.1823).
*Myles William Patrick O'Reilly, Catholic soldier and writer (b.1825).

References


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