1876 in Ireland

Events from the year 1876 in Ireland.

• 26 January – Dublin Women's Suffrage Association established.^[1]
• 1 April – Great Northern Railway (Ireland) formed by a merger of the Irish North Western Railway, Northern Railway of Ireland and the Ulster Railway.^[2]
• June – Dublin Artisans' Dwellings Company established.^[3]
• 29 December – Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language established.^[4]
• Return of Owners of Land in Ireland made.^[5]
• St. Michael's Hospital (Dún Laoghaire) established by the Sisters of Mercy.^[6]
• Grangegorman Military Cemetery opens in Dublin.

• March – George Bernard Shaw moves permanently from Dublin to England.
• Earliest published version of the song "Molly Malone", in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Song "Rose of Killarney" composed by John Rogers Thomas in the United States.

• July – First All Ireland Lawn Tennis Championships held in Dublin.
• First Ulster Schools' Cup (rugby union) competition.
• Sports clubs established: Clontarf Cricket Club, Clontarf F.C. (rugby union), Mountmellick Athletic Club, St Finbarr's National Hurling & Football Club (Cork).

• 5 January – Lucien Bull, pioneer in chronophotography (died 1972 in France).
• 21 January
  • James Charles Brady, Canadian politician (died 1962 in Canada).
  • James Larkin, trade union leader, socialist and Irish Labour Party TD, in Liverpool (died 1947).
• 25 February – Philip Graves, journalist and writer (died 1953).
• 11 April – Paul Henry, artist (died 1958).
• 14 June – George Townshend, writer, clergyman and Baháʼí (died 1957).
• 27 June – Gladys Wynne, landscape watercolourist (died 1968).
• 3 August – Sep Lambert, cricketer (died 1959).
• 22 October – Feardorcha Ó Conaill, Gaelic scholar (died 1929)

  Full date unknown

  • Cissie Cahalan, trade unionist, feminist and suffragette (died 1948).
  • Frederick James Walker, motor cycle racer (killed at 1914 Isle of Man TT races).

• 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).

• 1876 in Scotland
• 1876 in Wales