1876 in Ireland

Events

• 1 April – Great Northern Railway formed by a merger of the Irish North Western Railway, Northern Railway of Ireland and the Ulster Railway.

  Arts and literature

• Earliest published version of the song "Molly Malone", in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Song "Rose of Killarney" composed by John Rogers Thomas in the United States.

  Sport

Births

• 5 January – Lucien Bull, pioneer in chronophotography.
• 21 January
• *James Charles Brady, Canadian politician.
• *James Larkin, trade union leader, socialist and Irish Labour Party TD, in Liverpool.
• 25 February – Philip Graves, journalist and writer.
• 11 April – Paul Henry, artist.
• 3 August – Sep Lambert, cricketer.
• 22 October – Feardorcha Ó Conaill, Gaelic scholar
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Cissie Cahalan, trade unionist, feminist and suffragette.
• :*George Townshend, writer, clergyman and Bahá'í.
• :*Frederick James Walker, motor cycle racer.
• :*Gladys Wynne, landscape painter.

  Deaths

• 15 February – Daniel Pollen, politician, ninth Premier of New Zealand.
• 19 April – William Wilde, surgeon, author and father of Oscar Wilde.
• 7 May – Joseph Philip Ronayne, civil engineer.
• 16 June – Sir Henry Thomas, police magistrate in London.
• 25 June – Myles Keogh, officer in American Civil War, later in U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment, killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
• 14 July – James Henry, physician, classical scholar and poet.