1876 in Ireland

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1850s; 1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s;
See also:	1876 in the United Kingdom; Other events of 1876 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1876 in Ireland.

Doorway on Waterford quays, depicting the year 1876 and the royal arms.

Events

Henry Albert Hartland's 1876 landscape painting On the moors, Achill Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland

March – George Bernard Shaw moves permanently from Dublin to England.
Earliest published version of the song "Molly Malone", in Boston, Massachusetts.
Song "Rose of Killarney" composed by John Rogers Thomas in the United States.

5 January – Lucien Bull, pioneer in chronophotography (died 1972 in France).
21 January
- James Charles Brady, Canadian politician (died 1962 in Canada).
- James Larkin, trade union leader, socialist and Irish Labour Party TD, in Liverpool (died 1947).
25 February – Philip Graves, journalist and writer (died 1953).
11 April – Paul Henry, artist (died 1958).
3 August – Sep Lambert, cricketer (died 1959).
22 October – Feardorcha Ó Conaill, Gaelic scholar (died 1929)
Full date unknown
- Cissie Cahalan, trade unionist, feminist and suffragette (died 1948).
- George Townshend, writer, clergyman and Baháʼí (died 1957).
- Frederick James Walker, motor cycle racer (killed at 1914 Isle of Man TT races).
- Gladys Wynne, landscape painter (died 1968).

15 February – Daniel Pollen, politician, ninth Premier of New Zealand (born 1813).
19 April – William Wilde, surgeon, author and father of Oscar Wilde (born 1815).
7 May – Joseph Philip Ronayne, civil engineer (born 1822).
16 June – Sir Henry Thomas, police magistrate in London (born 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 (born 1840).
14 July – James Henry, physician, classical scholar and poet (born 1798).

Patterson, Edward M. (1962). The Great Northern Railway of Ireland. Oakwood Press.

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