1882 in Ireland

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 4 Births 4.1 January to June 4.2 July to December 4.3 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown 6 References

Events

• 6 May - Phoenix Park Murders

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• International

18 February Ireland 0 - 13 England (in Belfast)^[1]. First Irish international match.

25 February Wales 7 - 1 Ireland (in Wrexham). First Irish international goal scored by RS Johnston of Distillery^[1].

• Irish Cup

Winners: Queens Island 2 - 1 Cliftonville

Births

January to June

• 17 January - Henry George Farmer, musicologist (d.1965).
• 2 February - James Joyce, writer and poet (d.1941).
• 9 February - James Stephens, novelist and poet (d.1950).
• 28 February - Pádraic Ó Conaire, journalist and writer (d.1928).
• 17 March - Alfred Byrne, Irish Nationalist politician, served both as an MP in the British House of Commons and as a TD in Dáil Éireann (d.1956).
• 24 April - Jack Rochford, Kilkenny hurler (d.1953).

July to December

• 1 July - Brian O'Higgins, Sinn Féin MP and President (d.1963).
• 2 August - Bryan Cusack, doctor, Sinn Féin MP, member 1st Dáil (d.1973).
• 25 August - Seán T. O'Kelly, founding member of Fianna Fáil, Cabinet Minister and second President of Ireland (d.1966).
• 6 October - William John English, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Vlakfontein, South Africa (d.1941).
• 11 October - John D'Alton, Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1946 to 1963 (d.1963).
• 14 October - Éamon de Valera, President, Taoiseach and Founder of Fianna Fáil, born in Manhattan, New York (d.1975).
• 21 October - George Gavan Duffy, barrister, Sinn Féin MP (d.1951).
• 20 November - John Aston, cricketer (d.1951).
• 21 November - Thomas J. O'Connell, trade unionist, Irish Labour Party leader, TD and Senator (d.1969).

Full date unknown

• Anne Acheson, sculptor (d.1962)
• Darrell Figgis, writer, Sinn Féin activist and independent politician (d.1925).
• Bulmer Hobson, member of Irish Volunteers, socialist and writer (d.1969).
• Herbert Hughes, musicologist, composer and critic (d.1937).
• Anthony Mulvey, editor and Nationalist Party MP (d.1957).
• Thomas Sadleir, genealogist (d.1957).

Deaths

• 28 February - John Thomas Romney Robinson, astronomer and physicist (b.1792).
• 7 April - Denis Florence MacCarthy, poet, translator, biographer (b.1817).
• 17 April - Michael Hannan, Archbishop in Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax, Nova Scotia (b.1821).
• 6 May - Thomas Henry Burke, Permanent Under Secretary at the Irish Office, assassinated in the Phoenix Park Murders (b.1829).
• 9 December - Sir Joseph Napier, 1st Baronet, Conservative Party MP and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (b.1804).

Full date unknown

• J. J. McCarthy, architect (b.1817).
• Patrick Murray, theologian (b.1811).

References