1881 in Ireland
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[edit] Events
- 16 January - The lowest temperature ever recorded in Ireland, -19.1C (-2.4F) at Markree, County Sligo[1].
- 3 February - Arrest of Michael Davitt.[2]
- William Ewart Gladstone’s second Land Act secures the three”f”s (fair rents, fixity of tenure and free sale)[3].
- Coercion Acts.[2]
- October - Arrest of Charles Stewart Parnell and other leaders.[2]
- 18 October - No-Rent manifesto.[2]
- 19 October - Irish National Land League proclaimed as an unlawful association.[2]
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] Sport
[edit] Football
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- Winners: Moyola Park 1 - 0 Cliftonville (first ever Irish Cup winners)
[edit] Births
- 23 January - William X. O'Brien, politician and trade unionist (d.1968).
- 10 February - Kenneth McArthur, winner of the marathon race at the 1912 Summer Olympics for South Africa (d.1960).
- 15 February - Piaras Béaslaí, member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, member of Dáil Éireann, author, playwright, biographer and translator (d.1965).
- 21 March - Seán O'Hegarty, Irish Republican Army member during the Irish War of Independence (d.1963).
- 28 March - Martin Sheridan, Olympic gold medallist for the United States (d.1918).
- 24 April - John Joe O'Reilly, Cumann na nGaedhael and Fine Gael TD (d.1967).
- 20 May - Robert Gregory, cricketer and artist (d.1918).
- 26 July - James Cecil Parke, international rugby player, tennis player, golfer and Olympic medallist (d.1946).
- 21 September - Éamonn Ceannt, nationalist, rebel and Easter Rising leader, executed (d.1916).
- 13 November - Con Collins, Sinn Féin MP (d.1937).
- 13 November - John Tudor Gwynn, cricketer (d.1956).
- 8 December - Padraic Colum, poet, novelist and dramatist (d.1972).
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- Robert Barton, Sinn Féin MP, Cabinet Minister and signatory of Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921 (d.1975).
- William Conor, artist (d.1968).
- William John Leech, painter (d.1968).
[edit] Deaths
- 30 January - Anna Maria Hall, novelist (b.1800).
- January - Alfred Elmore, painter (b.1815).
- 5 February - Richard Graves MacDonnell, lawyer, judge and colonial governor (b.1814).
- 1 August - Nathaniel Thomas Hone, cricketer (b.1861).
- 9 September - Robert Carew, 2nd Baron Carew, politician (b.1818).
- 5 November - Robert Mallet, geologist, civil engineer and inventor (b.1810).
- 7 November - John McHale, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Irish Nationalist and writer (b.1791).
