Events from the year 1882 in Ireland.
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Football
- ;International
- :18 February Ireland 0âÂÂ13 England (in Belfast). First Irish international match.
- :25 February Wales 7âÂÂ1 Ireland (in Wrexham). First Irish international goal scored by RS Johnston of Distillery.
Births
- 17 January â Henry George Farmer, musicologist (died 1965).
- 2 February â James Joyce, novelist (died 1941).
- 9 February â James Stephens, novelist and poet (died 1950).
- 28 February â Pádraic àConaire, journalist and writer (died 1928).
- 17 March â Alfie Byrne, Irish Nationalist politician, served both as an MP in the British House of Commons and as a TD in Dáil ÃÂireann (died 1956).
- 2 April â Estella Solomons, painter (died 1968).
- 24 April â Jack Rochford, Kilkenny hurler (died 1953).
- 16 May â Herbert Hughes, musicologist, composer and critic (died 1937).
- 1 July â Brian O'Higgins, Sinn Féin MP and President (died 1963).
- 2 August â Bryan Cusack, doctor, Sinn Féin MP, member 1st Dáil (died 1973).
- 5 August â Anne Acheson, sculptor (died 1962)
- 25 August â Seán T. O'Kelly, founding member of Fianna Fáil, Cabinet Minister and second President of Ireland (died 1966).
- 16 September â Thomas Sadleir, genealogist (died 1957).
- 17 September â Darrell Figgis, writer, Sinn Féin activist and independent politician (suicide 1925 in London).
- 2 October â Dick Fitzgerald, Kerry Gaelic footballer (died 1930).
- 6 October â William John English, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Vlakfontein, South Africa (died 1941).
- 11 October â John D'Alton, Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1946 to 1963 (died 1963).
- 14 October â ÃÂamon de Valera, President, Taoiseach and Founder of Fianna Fáil, born in Manhattan, New York (died 1975).
- 21 October â George Gavan Duffy, barrister, Sinn Féin MP (died 1951).
- 11 November â T. F. O'Rahilly, linguist and Irish language scholar (died 1953)
- 20 November â John Aston, cricketer (died 1951).
- 21 November
- Anthony Mulvey, editor and Nationalist Party MP (died 1957).
- Thomas J. O'Connell, trade unionist, Labour Party leader, TD and Senator (died 1969).
Deaths
- 28 February â John Thomas Romney Robinson, astronomer and physicist (born 1792).
- 7 April â Denis Florence MacCarthy, poet, translator, biographer (born 1817).
- 17 April â Michael Hannan, Archbishop in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax, Nova Scotia (born 1821).
- 6 May â Thomas Henry Burke, Permanent Under Secretary at the Irish Office, assassinated in the Phoenix Park Murders (born 1829).
- 15 November â Patrick Murray, theologian (born 1811).
- 28 November â James Joseph McCarthy, architect (born 1817).
- 9 December â Sir Joseph Napier, 1st Baronet, Conservative Party MP and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (born 1804).
See also
References