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Events from the year 1877 in Ireland.
Events
- May – Sophia Jex-Blake qualifies as a Licentiate of the King’s and Queen’s College of Physicians of Ireland (LKQCPI).
- 1 September – the narrow gauge Ballymena and Larne Railway starts operations in County Antrim, from Larne to Ballyclare for goods traffic.[1]
- 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 (died 1961).
- 12 March – Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (died 1927).
- 17 March – George Gardiner, boxer (died 1954).
- 2 April – Gus Kelly, cricketer (died 1951).
- 2 April – Richard Rowley, poet and writer (died 1947).
- 26 April – Robert Gwynn, cricketer (died 1962).
- 26 May – Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, feminist, suffragette and writer (died 1946).
- 12 June – Hugh Godley, 2nd Baron Kilbracken, barrister (died 1950).
- 20 July – Tom Crean, Antarctic explorer and publican (died 1938).
- 2 December – Cahir Healy, Nationalist Party MP (died 1970).
- 15 December – John T. McNicholas, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati and founder of the Catholic Legion of Decency (died 1950).
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- George C. Bennett, Cumann na nGaedheal TD, later Fine Gael and Seanad Éireann member (died 1963).
- Con Lehane, socialist active in the Irish Socialist Republican Party, the Social Democratic Federation and Socialist Party of Great Britain (died 1919).
Deaths
- 7 February – John O'Mahony, a founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (born 1816).
- 1 October – David Moriarty, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kerry (born 1814).
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