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.
- Approximate date - St John Ambulance Ireland establishes its first centre, in Dublin.
Arts and literature
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Sport
Football
- 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
- ^ "Temperature in Ireland". Met Éireann. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
- ^ a b c d e Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 378.
- ^ Stewart, A. T. Q. (1981). Edward Carson. Gill's Irish Lives. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
- ^ Hill, Myrtle; Lynch, John. "Ireland: society & economy, 1870-1914". Multitext Project in Irish History. University College Cork. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
- ^ "Royal Belfast Golf Club". Coleraine: The Golf PA.com. Retrieved 2012-12-30.