1876 in Ireland

Events

• 26 January – Dublin Women's Suffrage Association established.
• 1 April – Great Northern Railway formed by a merger of the Irish North Western Railway, Northern Railway of Ireland and the Ulster Railway.
• June – Dublin Artisans' Dwellings Company established.
• 29 December – Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language established.
• Return of Owners of Land in Ireland made.
• St. Michael's Hospital established by the Sisters of Mercy.
• Grangegorman Military Cemetery opens in Dublin.

  Arts and literature

• March – George Bernard Shaw moves permanently from Dublin to England.
• 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

• July – First All Ireland Lawn Tennis Championships held in Dublin.
• First Ulster Schools' Cup competition.
• Sports clubs established: Clontarf Cricket Club, Clontarf F.C., Mountmellick Athletic Club, St Finbarr's National Hurling & Football Club.

  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.
• 14 June – George Townshend, writer, clergyman and Baháʼí.
• 27 June – Gladys Wynne, landscape watercolourist.
• 3 August – Sep Lambert, cricketer.
• 22 October – Feardorcha Ó Conaill, Gaelic scholar
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Cissie Cahalan, trade unionist, feminist and suffragette.
• :*Frederick James Walker, motor cycle racer.

  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.