1881 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1881 in Ireland.

Events

• 16 January - The lowest temperature ever recorded in Ireland, -19.1C (-2.4F) at Markree, County Sligo.^[1]
• 3 February - Arrest of Michael Davitt.^[2]
• William Ewart Gladstone's second Land Act secures the three "f"s (fair rents, fixity of tenure and freedom of sale),^[3] and gives the courts the authority to reconsider judicial rents every three years and to adjust them in line with shifts in agricultural prices.^[4]
• June - The submarine "Fenian Ram" (Holland Boat No. II), designed by Irish-born John Philip Holland and financed by the American Fenian Brotherhood, is first submersion-tested in New York City.
• Coercion Acts.^[2]
• October - Arrest of Charles Stewart Parnell and other leaders.^[2]
• 18 October - No Rent manifesto.^[2]
• 19 October - Irish National Land League proclaimed as an unlawful association.^[2]
• Kilmacud Monastery established by Carmelite nuns.

Sport

Football

• Irish Cup

Winners: Moyola Park 1 - 0 Cliftonville (first ever Irish Cup winners)

Golf

• 9 November - Royal Belfast Golf Club founded, the oldest in Ireland.^[5]

Births

• 23 January - William X. O'Brien, politician and trade unionist (died 1968).
• 10 February - Ken McArthur, winner of the marathon race at the 1912 Summer Olympics for South Africa (died 1960).
• 15 February - Piaras Béaslaí, member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, member of Dáil Éireann, author, playwright, biographer and translator (died 1965).
• 21 March - Seán O'Hegarty, Irish Republican Army member during the Irish War of Independence (died 1963).
• 28 March - Martin Sheridan, Olympic gold medallist for the United States (died 1918).
• 24 April - John Joe O'Reilly, Cumann na nGaedheal and Fine Gael TD (died 1967).
• 20 May - Robert Gregory, cricketer, artist and airman (shot down 1918 in Italy).
• 26 July - James Cecil Parke, international rugby player, tennis player, golfer and Olympic medallist (died 1946).
• 21 September - Éamonn Ceannt, nationalist, rebel and Easter Rising leader, executed (died 1916).
• 13 November - Con Collins, Sinn Féin MP (died 1937).
• 13 November - John Tudor Gwynn, cricketer (died 1956).
• 8 December - Padraic Colum, poet, novelist and dramatist (died 1972).

Full date unknown

• Robert Barton, Sinn Féin MP, Cabinet Minister and signatory of Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 (died 1975).
• William Conor, artist (died 1968).
• William John Leech, painter (died 1968).

Deaths

• 30 January - Anna Maria Hall, novelist (born 1800).
• January - Alfred Elmore, painter (born 1815).
• 5 February - Richard Graves MacDonnell, lawyer, judge and colonial governor (born 1814).
• 1 August - Nathaniel Thomas Hone, cricketer (born 1861).
• 9 September - Robert Carew, 2nd Baron Carew, politician (born 1818).
• 5 November - Robert Mallet, geologist, civil engineer and inventor (born 1810).
• 7 November - John McHale, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Irish Nationalist and writer (born 1791).

Full date unknown

• Richard Turner, iron-founder (born 1798).

References