1887 in Ireland

Sport

Athletics

• January 15 – Trinity College's University Harriers Club holds the first Hares and Hounds race in Dollymount.

Football

• ;International
• :5 February England 7–0 Ireland (in Sheffield)
• :19 February Scotland 4–1 Ireland (in Glasgow)
• :13 March Ireland 4–1 Wales (in Belfast). 16th international game and first win.

• ;Irish Cup
• :Winners: Ulster 3–0 Cliftonville

• Athlone Town A.F.C., the oldest surviving club in the League of Ireland, are founded.
• 6 November – Celtic F.C. is formed in Glasgow, Scotland, by Irish Marist Brother Walfrid to help alleviate poverty in the city's East End by raising money for his charity, the Poor Children's Dinner Table.

Gaelic Games

• Cavan GAA President Michael Davin resigns.
• Cavan GAA football teams Annagh Sons of Usnagh, Mountnugent Red Hands, Belturbet Rory O'Moore's, Mullagh Briffnians, Killinkere Defenders, Cross Independents, Moybulgue St. Patricks, and the Virginia Sarsfields are formed.
• The Kiltimagh Cavan GAA Club is formed.
• The Limerick Commercials win the first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship defeating the Dundalk Young Irelands.
• April 1 – The first All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship is held in Birr, County Offaly between Galway and Tipperary.
• December 27 – The first Cavan GAA County Convention is held at McGoldricks Hotel in Ballyjamesduff.

Births

• 8 March – Patrick O'Connell, soccer player and manager (died 1959).
• 27 April – Harry Boland, Irish Volunteer in Easter Rising, Sinn Féin MP (shot by members of the Free State National Army 1922).
• 1 May – Alan Cunningham, soldier noted for victories in the East African Campaign during World War II (died 1983).
• 4 May – Ernest Deane, military doctor and Ireland rugby player (killed in action during World War I 1915).
• 6 May – Michael Browne, Master General of the Dominicans, Cardinal (died 1971).
• 7 May – Benjamin Glazer, Academy Award-winning screen writer, producer and director (died 1956).
• 18 May – Richard Wyndham-Quin, 6th Earl of Dunraven, peer (died 1965).
• 24 May – Edward Mannock, First World War flying ace and posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross (killed in action 1918).
• 19 August – Francis Ledwidge, poet (killed in action during World War I 1917).
• 27 August – Carmel Snow, journalist and editor of the American edition of Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to 1958 (died 1961).
• 8 October – Padraig O'Keeffe, fiddle player (died 1963).
• 13 October – Tommy Henderson, Ulster independent Unionist politician (died 1970).
• 6 November – Edward MacLysaght, genealogist and writer (died 1986).
• 11 November – Canon John M. Hayes, priest and Muintir na Tíre founder.
• 18 November – Joseph Brennan, civil servant and Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland (died 1963).
• 21 November – Joseph Mary Plunkett, nationalist, poet, journalist and a leader of the Easter Rising (executed 1916).
• 21 December – J. J. "Ginger" O'Connell, officer in the Irish Volunteers and Irish Defence Forces (died 1944).

Deaths

• 18 January – Martin Haverty, journalist and historian (born 1809).
• 17 February – William Dowling, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (born 1825).
• 16 April – John McCaul, educator, theologian, and second president of the University of Toronto (born 1807).
• 30 April – Edward Hardman, geologist (born 1845).
• 25 August
• William Barber, businessman and politician in Ontario (born 1808).
• Matthew Cooke, economic entomologist in California (born 1829).
• 15 September – Richard Quain, anatomist and surgeon (born 1800).
• 22 November – Ulick Bourke, scholar and writer, founder of the Gaelic Union (born 1829).
• 4 December – Mary Frances Clarke, founder of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (born 1803).
• Full date unknown – Rev. William Anderson O'Connor, theologian.

See also

• 1887 in Scotland
• 1887 in Wales

References