1877 in Ireland

Events

• May – Sophia Jex-Blake qualifies as a Licentiate of the King’s and Queen’s College of Physicians of Ireland.
• 1 September – the narrow gauge Ballymena and Larne Railway starts operations in County Antrim, from Larne to Ballyclare for goods traffic.
• 14 August – National Museum of Ireland established in Dublin.

  Arts and literature

• Percy French, at this time a student at Trinity College Dublin, composes the song "Abdul Abulbul Amir".

  Sport

Births

• 20 February – T. C. Hammond, Anglican clergyman, Principal of Moore Theological College, Sydney.
• 12 March – Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer.
• 17 March – George Gardiner, boxer.
• 2 April – Gus Kelly, cricketer.
• 2 April – Richard Rowley, poet and writer.
• 26 April – Robert Gwynn, cricketer.
• 26 May – Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, feminist, suffragette and writer.
• 12 June – Hugh Godley, 2nd Baron Kilbracken, barrister.
• 20 July – Tom Crean, Antarctic explorer and publican.
• 2 December – Cahir Healy, Nationalist Party MP.
• 15 December – John T. McNicholas, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati and founder of the Catholic Legion of Decency.
• ;Full date unknown
• :*George C. Bennett, Cumann na nGaedheal TD, later Fine Gael and Seanad Éireann member.
• :*Con Lehane, socialist active in the Irish Socialist Republican Party, the Social Democratic Federation and Socialist Party of Great Britain.

  Deaths

• 7 February – John O'Mahony, a founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
• 1 October – David Moriarty, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kerry.