1887 in Ireland

1887
in
Ireland

Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
See also: 1887 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1887
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1887 in Ireland.

Dublin in 1887

Events

Arts and literature

  • The Romanesque doorway, only surviving portion of the original (late 12th century) Cathedral Church of St. Flannan, Killaloe in County Clare, is restored.
  • William Ewart Gladstone publishes Handbook of Home Rule.
  • Michael Davitt publishes Revival of the Irish Woollen Industry: Brief Historical Record: How England Endeavoured to Destroy Irish Manufacture: How Irish Leaders Propose to Accomplish its Revival
  • William Lecky's A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century is published.
  • Alex G. Richey's A Short History of the Irish People, Down to the Date of the Plantation of Ulster is published.
  • Margaret Stokes publishes Early Christian Art in Ireland.
  • Lady Wilde publishes Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland, with Sketches of the Irish Past (later appended to The Ancient Race of Ireland)
  • Sir Samuel Ferguson's Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland is published posthumously.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford's Third Symphony, in F minor, the Irish, is first performed.

Sport

Athletics

Football

  • International
    5 February England 7–0 Ireland (in Sheffield)[7]
    19 February Scotland 4–1 Ireland (in Glasgow)[7]
    13 March Ireland 4–1 Wales (in Belfast). 16th international game and first win.[7]

Gaelic Games

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Moody, T. W. (1968). "The Times versus Parnell and Co., 1887–90". In Moody, T. W. (ed.). Historical Studies: papers read before the Irish Conference of Historians VI, Dublin, 2–5 June 1965. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 147–82. ISBN 0-7100-6040-8.
  2. Ferris, Tom (1993). The Irish Narrow Gauge: a pictorial history, Volume 2, The Ulster Lines. Leicester: Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-017-6.
  3. Patterson, Edward M. (1972). The Clogher Valley Railway. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 57. ISBN 0-7153-5604-6.
  4. "Temperature in Ireland". Met Éireann. Retrieved 2013-03-20.
  5. Healey, Edna (2004). "Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett–, suo jure Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
  6. Stewart, A. T. Q. (1981). Edward Carson. Gill's Irish Lives. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. ISBN 0-7171-1075-3.
  7. Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 151. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.
  8. Coogan, Tim Pat (2002). Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 250. ISBN 978-1-4039-6014-6.
  9. Wagg, Stephen (2002). British Football and Social Exclusion. Routledge. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-7146-5217-7.
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