1877 in Ireland

Events

*July - The narrow gauge Ballymena and Larne Railway starts operations in County Antrim. [cite book |last= Baker |first= Michael HC |title= Irish Narrow Gauge Railways. A View from the Past|publisher= Ian Allan Publishing|year= 1999 |isbn= 0-7110-2680-7 ]

Arts and literature

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Births

*20 February - T. C. Hammond, Anglican clergyman, Principal of Moore Theological College, Sydney (d.1961).
*17 March - George Gardiner, boxer (d.1954).
*2 April - Gus Kelly, cricketer (d.1951).
*26 April - Robert Gwynn, cricketer (d.1962).
*26 May - Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, feminist, suffragette and writer (d.1946).
*12 June - Hugh Godley, 2nd Baron Kilbracken, barrister (d.1950).
*20 July - Tom Crean, Antarctic explorer and publican (d.1938).
*2 December - Cahir Healy, Nationalist Party MP (d.1970).
*15 December - John T. McNicholas, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati and founder of the Catholic Legion of Decency (d.1950).

Full date unknown

*George C. Bennett, Cumman na nGaedhael TD, later joined Fine Gael and Seanad Éireann member (d.1963).
*Tommy Henderson, Ulster independent Unionist politician (d.1970).
*Con Lehane, socialist active in the Irish Socialist Republican Party, the Social Democratic Federation, and the Socialist Party of Great Britain (d.1919).
*Richard Rowley, poet and writer (d.1947).

Deaths

*1 October - David Moriarty, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kerry (b.1812).
*John O'Mahony, one of the founders of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (b.1816).

References