1877 in Ireland

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See also:	1877 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1877 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1877 in Ireland.

Events

• May – Sophia Jex-Blake qualifies as a Licentiate of the King’s and Queen’s College of Physicians of Ireland (LKQCPI).
• 1 September – the narrow gauge Ballymena and Larne Railway starts operations in County Antrim, from Larne to Ballyclare for goods traffic.^[1]
• 14 August – National Museum of Ireland established in Dublin.

Arts and literature

• Percy French, at this time a student at Trinity College Dublin, composes the song "Abdul Abulbul Amir".

Sport

Births

• 20 February – T. C. Hammond, Anglican clergyman, Principal of Moore Theological College, Sydney (died 1961).
• 12 March – Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (died 1927).
• 17 March – George Gardiner, boxer (died 1954).
• 2 April – Gus Kelly, cricketer (died 1951).
• 2 April – Richard Rowley, poet and writer (died 1947).
• 26 April – Robert Gwynn, cricketer (died 1962).
• 26 May – Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, feminist, suffragette and writer (died 1946).
• 12 June – Hugh Godley, 2nd Baron Kilbracken, barrister (died 1950).
• 20 July – Tom Crean, Antarctic explorer and publican (died 1938).
• 2 December – Cahir Healy, Nationalist Party MP (died 1970).
• 15 December – John T. McNicholas, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati and founder of the Catholic Legion of Decency (died 1950).

  Full date unknown

  • George C. Bennett, Cumann na nGaedheal TD, later Fine Gael and Seanad Éireann member (died 1963).
  • Con Lehane, socialist active in the Irish Socialist Republican Party, the Social Democratic Federation and Socialist Party of Great Britain (died 1919).

Deaths

• 7 February – John O'Mahony, a founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (born 1816).
• 1 October – David Moriarty, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kerry (born 1814).

See also

• 1877 in Scotland
• 1877 in Wales

References