← 1875 1874 1873 1872 1871 1876 in Ireland → 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881
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See also:	1876 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1876 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1876 in Ireland.

Events

• 1 April – Great Northern Railway (Ireland) formed by a merger of the Irish North Western Railway, Northern Railway of Ireland and the Ulster Railway.^[1]

Arts and literature

• 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.

Sport

Births

• 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).

Deaths

• 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).