Events from the year 1876 in Ireland.
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Births
- 5 January â 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 â Philip Graves, journalist and writer (died 1953).
- 11 April â Paul Henry, artist (died 1958).
- 14 June â George Townshend, writer, clergyman and Baháüà(died 1957).
- 27 June â Gladys Wynne, landscape watercolourist (died 1968).
- 3 August â Sep Lambert, cricketer (died 1959).
- 22 October â Feardorcha àConaill, Gaelic scholar (died 1929)
- ;Full date unknown
- :*Cissie Cahalan, trade unionist, feminist and suffragette (died 1948).
- :*Frederick James Walker, motor cycle racer (killed at 1914 Isle of Man TT races).
Deaths
- 15 February â Daniel Pollen, politician, ninth Premier of New Zealand (born 1813).
- 19 April â William Wilde, surgeon, author and father of Oscar Wilde (born 1815).
- 7 May â Joseph Philip Ronayne, civil engineer (born 1822).
- 16 June â Sir Henry Thomas, police magistrate in London (born 1807).
- 25 June â 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 â James Henry, physician, classical scholar and poet (born 1798).
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