1883 in Ireland

Events

*April - The narrow gauge Castlederg and Victoria Bridge Tramway opens in County Tyrone. [cite book |last= Ferris |first= T |title= The Irish Narrow Gauge (Volume 2, The Ulster Lines)|publisher= Midland Publishing|year= 1993 |isbn= 1-85780-017-6 ]
*1 November - Mater Infirmorum Hospital in Belfast admits its first patients. [ [http://www.mater.n-i.nhs.uk/trust/History_of_the_Mater.html#P-5_0 History of the Mater Hospital] ]

Arts and literature

port

occer

*International::24 February England 7 - 0 Ireland (in Liverpool)cite book | last=Hayes, Dean| year=2006 |title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts | publisher=Appletree Press | location= Belfast | pages=p 149|isbn=0-86281-874-5] ::17 March Ireland 1 - 1 Wales (in Belfast)
*Irish Cup::Winners: Cliftonville 5 - 0 Ulster

Births

*7 January - Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, British admiral of the Second World War and First Sea Lord (d.1963).
*24 January - Denis McCullough, Irish Volunteers and elected to the 4th Dáil Éireann (d.1968).
*29 January - Billy McCracken, footballer and football manager (d.1979).
*28 February - Seán Mac Diarmada, nationalist, rebel and Easter Rising leader, executed (d.1916).
*1 May - Thomas J. Moore, actor (d.1955).
*13 May - Jimmy Archer, Major League baseball player (d.1958).
*23 June - Eva McGown, Official Hostess of Fairbanks and Honorary Hostess of Alaska (d.1972).
*15 July - Denny Barry, Irish Republican, died during hunger strike, shortly after the Irish Civil War (d.1923).
*2 August - Sam Irving, footballer and football manager (d.1968).
*2 September - Alexander Haslett, independent TD (d.1951).
*12 December - Peadar Kearney, Irish Republican and songwriter who wrote the lyrics to "The Soldier's Song" (d.1942).

Full date unknown

*St. John Greer Ervine, author and dramatist (d.1971).
*Rory O'Connor, Irish republican activist, captured at the fall of the Four Courts and executed (d.1922).
*Lorcán Ó Muireadais, priest and Irish language promoter.
*T. F. O'Rahilly, linguist and Irish language scholar (d.1953).

Deaths

*9 February - Henry John Stephen Smith, mathematician (d.1826).
*26 May - Edward Sabine, astronomer, scientist, ornithologist and explorer (b.1788).
*25 July - Frederick Edward Maning, writer and judge in New Zealand (b.1812).
*22 October - Thomas Mayne Reid, novelist (b.1818).
*24 November - William Fitzgerald, Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe (b.1814).

Full date unknown

*James Carey, Fenian and informer (b.1845).
*Robert Dwyer Joyce, music collector and writer (b.1830).

References