1883 in Ireland

Events from the year 1883 in Ireland.

Events

April – the narrow gauge Castlederg and Victoria Bridge Tramway opens in County Tyrone.
May – The four winged statues at the base of the O'Connell Monument are finally installed at the monument. The monument had been officially unveiled to the public without them a year earlier.
23 October – the Society of Jesus takes over University College Dublin.
30 October – two Clan na Gael dynamite bombs explode in the London Underground, injuring several people. Next day the British Home Secretary, William Vernon Harcourt, introduces the Explosives Bill.
1 November – Mater Infirmorum Hospital in Belfast admits its first patients.

7 January – Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, British admiral of the Second World War and First Sea Lord.
14 January – Bulmer Hobson, nationalist, an early leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
15 January – Helena Molony, fights in the 1916 Easter Rising and first woman president of the Irish Trades Union Congress.
24 January – Denis McCullough, Irish Volunteers, elected to the 4th Dáil Éireann.
29 January – Billy McCracken, footballer and football manager.
28 February – Seán Mac Diarmada, nationalist, rebel and Easter Rising leader.
1 May – Thomas J. Moore, actor.
8 May – Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh, born Mary Walker, actress and Republican activist.
13 May – Jimmy Archer, Major League baseball player.
23 June – Eva McGown, Official Hostess of Fairbanks and Honorary Hostess of Alaska.
15 July – Denny Barry, Irish Republican.
2 August – Sam Irving, footballer and football manager.
2 September – Alexander Haslett, independent TD.
12 December – Peadar Kearney, Irish Republican and songwriter, co-author of "The Soldier's Song".
28 November – Rory O'Connor, Irish republican activist captured at the fall of the Four Courts.
28 December – St. John Greer Ervine, author and dramatist.
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:*Lorcán Ó Muireadais, priest and Irish language promoter.
:*Louisa Watson Peat, writer and lecturer