1880 in Ireland

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See also:	1880 in the United Kingdom; Other events of 1880 ; List of years in Ireland

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 nationalist 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]
English philanthropists are active in connection with the west of Ireland: Quaker James Hack Tute distributes aid and publishes Irish Distress and its Remedies;^[3] heiress Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, offers to advance £250,000 to the authorities for the supply of seed potatoes, forcing the government to take action itself.^[4]
St Stephen's Green, Dublin, opened as a public park.

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.^[5]
Irish Cup knock-out competition instituted on an all-Ireland basis.

Births

3 January – Francis Browne, Jesuit priest and photographer (died 1960).
6 January – John McKenna, traditional flute player (died 1947 in the United States)
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 – J. 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 September – Áine Ceannt, born Frances Brennan, revolutionary activist and humanitarian (died 1954).
4 October – Sim Walton, Kilkenny hurler (died 1966).
23 October – Una O'Connor, actress (died 1959).
3 November – Edward Barrett, athlete, wrestler and hurler, Olympic medallist.

Deaths

6 February – Myles William Patrick O'Reilly, Catholic soldier and writer (born 1825).
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).
18 October – Ann Jellicoe, educationalist (born 1823).
20 December – Joshua Spencer Thompson, Liberal-Conservative politician in Canada (born 1828).

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 378.
^ "Ballycastle Railway Station". Ballycastle. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tuke" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 365.
^ Healey, Edna (2004). "Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett–, suo jure Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
^ Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 5. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.

[TM-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 378.

[2] "Ballycastle Railway Station". Ballycastle. Retrieved 2007-10-27.

[3] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tuke" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 365.

[4] Healey, Edna (2004). "Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett–, suo jure Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.

[5] Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 5. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.

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1880 in Ireland

Events

Arts and literature

Sport

Soccer

Births

Deaths

See also

References

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