1876 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown

[edit] Events

• Great Northern Railway (Ireland) (GNR(I) or GNRI) forms by a merger of the Irish North Western Railway (INW), Northern Railway of Ireland, and Ulster Railway.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Births

• 21 January - James Larkin, trade union leader, socialist and Irish Labour Party TD (d.1947).
• 25 February - Philip Graves, journalist and writer (d.1953).
• 11 April - Paul Henry, artist (d.1958).
• 3 August - Sep Lambert, cricketer (d.1959).

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• George Townshend, writer, former clergyman and Bahá'í (d.1957).
• Frederick James Walker, motor cycle racer, killed at 1914 Isle of Man TT races (d.1914).

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• 15 February - Daniel Pollen, politician, ninth Premier of New Zealand (b.1813).
• 7 May - Joseph Philip Ronayne, civil engineer (b.1822).
• 16 June - Sir Henry Thomas, police magistrate in London (b.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 (b.1840).
• 14 July - James Henry, physician, classical scholar and poet (b.1798).

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• William Wilde, surgeon, author and father of Oscar Wilde (b.1815).