1876 in Ireland

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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

Sport

Births

• 5 January - Lucien Bull, pioneer in chronophotography (died 1972).
• 21 January
  • James Larkin, trade union leader, socialist and Irish Labour Party TD (died 1947).
  • James Charles Brady, Canadian politician
• 25 February - Philip Graves, journalist and writer (died 1953).
• 11 April - Paul Henry, artist (died 1958).
• 3 August - Sep Lambert, cricketer (died 1959).

Full date unknown

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

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