1881 in Ireland

Events from the year 1881 in Ireland.

Events

16 January – the lowest temperature ever recorded in Ireland, −19.1C at Markree, County Sligo.
3 February – arrest of Michael Davitt.
2 March – Protection of Persons and Property (Ireland) Act 1881, a Coercion Act, is passed.
June – the submarine "Fenian Ram", designed by Irish-born John Philip Holland and financed by the American Fenian Brotherhood, is first submersion-tested in New York City.
22 August – William Ewart Gladstone's Land Law (Ireland) Act 1881, the second of the Irish Land Acts, secures the three "f"s, and gives the courts the authority to reconsider judicial rents every three years and to adjust them in line with shifts in agricultural prices.
13 October – arrest of Charles Stewart Parnell and other leaders.
18 October – No Rent Manifesto.
19 October – Irish National Land League proclaimed as an unlawful association.

Date unknown

Sirocco Works, an engineering firm was founded in Belfast by Samuel Cleland Davidson.
Kilmacud Monastery established by Carmelite nuns.
Approximate date – St John Ambulance Ireland establishes its first centre, in Dublin.

23 January – William O'Brien, politician and trade unionist.
10 February – Ken McArthur, winner of the marathon race at the 1912 Summer Olympics for South Africa.
15 February – Piaras Béaslaí, member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, member of Dáil Éireann, author, playwright, biographer and translator.
14 March – Robert Barton, Sinn Féin MP, Cabinet Minister and signatory of Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921.
21 March – Seán O'Hegarty, Irish Republican Army member during the Irish War of Independence.
25 March – Moya Llewelyn Davies, born Mary Elizabeth O'Connor, Republican activist and Gaelic scholar.
28 March – Martin Sheridan, Olympic gold medallist for the United States.
10 April – William John Leech, painter.
24 April – John Joe O'Reilly, Cumann na nGaedheal and Fine Gael TD.
5 May – Horace de Vere Cole, prankster
20 May – Robert Gregory, cricketer, artist and airman.
26 July – James Cecil Parke, international rugby player, tennis player, golfer and Olympic medallist.
21 September – Éamonn Ceannt, nationalist, rebel and Easter Rising leader.
13 November
*Con Collins, Sinn Féin MP.
*John Tudor Gwynn, cricketer.
8 December – Padraic Colum, poet, novelist and dramatist.
25 December – John Dill, British Army field marshal.
Full date unknown
*William Conor, artist.
*Seumas O'Kelly, journalist and author

30 January – Anna Maria Hall, novelist.
January – Alfred Elmore, painter.
5 February – Richard Graves MacDonnell, lawyer, judge and colonial governor.
1 August – Nathaniel Thomas Hone, cricketer.
9 September – Robert Carew, 2nd Baron Carew, politician.
10 October – Richard Turner, iron-founder.
5 November – Robert Mallet, geologist, civil engineer and inventor.
7 November – John MacHale, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Irish Nationalist and writer.