1876 in Ireland

Events

*Great Northern Railway (Ireland) (GNR(I) or GNRI) forms by a merger of the Irish North Western Railway (INW), Northern Railway of Ireland, and Ulster Railway.

Arts and literature

port

Births

*21 January - James Larkin, trade union leader, socialist and Irish Labour Party TD (d.1947).
*January 21 - James Charles Brady, Canadian politician
*25 February - Philip Graves, journalist and writer (d.1953).
*11 April - Paul Henry, artist (d.1958).
*3 August - Sep Lambert, cricketer (d.1959).

Full date unknown

*George Townshend, writer, former clergyman and Bahá'í (d.1957).
*Frederick James Walker, motor cycle racer, killed at 1914 Isle of Man TT races (d.1914).
*Gladys Wynne, artist (d.1968).

Deaths

*15 February - Daniel Pollen, politician, ninth Premier of New Zealand (b.1813).
*7 May - Joseph Philip Ronayne, civil engineer (b.1822).
*16 June - Sir Henry Thomas, police magistrate in London (b.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 (b.1840).
*14 July - James Henry, physician, classical scholar and poet (b.1798).

Full date unknown

*William Wilde, surgeon, author and father of Oscar Wilde (b.1815).