1880 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1880 in Ireland.

Events

• 2 February - Charles Stewart Parnell addresses the United States Congress.^[1]
• 31 March – 27 April - United Kingdom general election in Ireland^[1] produces a majority for the Irish Parliamentary Party in Irish seats.
• 27 April - Charter founding the Royal University of Ireland,^[1] allowing the Catholic University of Ireland to re-form as University College Dublin.
• 17 May - Parnell elected chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party.^[1]
• May - Irish National Land League of the United States founded.^[1]
• September - November - "Boycotting" of Captain Charles Boycott.^[1]
• 18 October - Ballycastle Railway opened between Ballymoney and Ballycastle.^[2]
• December - Trial of Parnell and others for conspiracy begins.^[1]

Arts and literature

• 9 February - The Theatre Royal, Dublin, burns to the ground.

Sport

Soccer

• 18 November - Irish Football Association is founded at the Queen's Hotel, Belfast.^[3]
• Irish Cup knock-out competition instituted on an all-Ireland basis.

Births

• 3 January - Francis Browne, Jesuit priest and photographer (died 1960).
• 12 January - Frank Fahy, Sinn Féin MP and later TD, member of 1st Dáil, Ceann Comhairle, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1953).
• 23 January - Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, Unionist politician (died 1950).
• 9 February - Thomas Kettle, writer, barrister, Nationalist politician and economist (killed in action 1916).
• 20 February - James J. Walsh, Sinn Féin MP, member of 1st Dáil, a founder-member of Cumann na nGaedheal and Cabinet Minister (died 1948).
• 29 March - Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, British politician and businessman (assassinated in Cairo by the Zionist group Lehi (Stern Gang) 1944), born at Iveagh House, Dublin.
• 30 March - Seán O'Casey, dramatist and memoirist (died 1964).
• 26 April - Joseph Lynch, cricketer (died 1915).
• 6 June - W. T. Cosgrave, first President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (died 1965).
• 13 June - John Dignan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clonfert (died 1953).
• 2 July - Mary Elizabeth Byrne, literary scholar (died 1931).
• 19 August - Augusta Crichton-Stuart, Marchioness of Bute (died 1947).
• 24 August - William Kenny, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1914 near Ypres, Belgium (died 1936).
• 23 October - Una O'Connor, actress (died 1959).
• 3 November - Edward Barrett, athlete, wrestler and hurler, Olympic medallist.

Full date unknown

• Hugo Flinn, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1943).
• Sim Walton, Kilkenny hurler (died 1966).

Deaths

• 26 February - Charles William Russell, Roman Catholic clergyman and scholar (born 1812).
• 2 March - John Benjamin Macneill, railway engineer (born 1793).
• 16 April - Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy, barrister and writer (born 1819).
• 7 June - John Brougham, actor and dramatist (born 1814).
• 12 September - Frederic Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown, peer (born 1804).
• 20 December - Joshua Spencer Thompson, Liberal-Conservative politician in Canada (born 1828).

Full date unknown

• Ann Jellicoe, educationalist (born 1823).
• Myles William Patrick O'Reilly, Catholic soldier and writer (born 1825).

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