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Events from the year 1883 in Ireland.
Events
- April - The narrow gauge Castlederg and Victoria Bridge Tramway opens in County Tyrone.[1]
 - 23 October - The Society of Jesus takes over University College Dublin.
 - 30 October - Two Clan na Gael dynamite bombs explode in the London Underground, injuring several people. Next day the British Home Secretary, William Vernon Harcourt, introduces the Explosives Bill.
 - 1 November - Mater Infirmorum Hospital in Belfast admits its first patients.[2]
 
Arts and literature
- George Moore's first novel, the realist A Modern Lover, is published.
 
Sport
Soccer
- International
 
- Winners: Cliftonville 5 - 0 Ulster
 
Births
- 7 January - Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, British admiral of the Second World War and First Sea Lord (died 1963).
 - 14 January - Bulmer Hobson, nationalist, an early leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (died 1969).
 - 15 January - Helena Molony, fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and first woman president of the Irish Trade Union Congress (died 1967).
 - 24 January - Denis McCullough, Irish Volunteers and elected to the 4th Dáil Éireann (died 1968).
 - 29 January - Billy McCracken, footballer and football manager (died 1979).
 - 28 February - Seán Mac Diarmada, nationalist, rebel and Easter Rising leader, executed (died 1916).
 - 1 May - Thomas J. Moore, actor (died 1955).
 - 13 May - Jimmy Archer, Major League baseball player (died 1958).
 - 23 June - Eva McGown, Official Hostess of Fairbanks and Honorary Hostess of Alaska (died 1972).
 - 15 July - Denny Barry, Irish Republican, died during hunger strike, shortly after the Irish Civil War (died 1923).
 - 2 August - Sam Irving, footballer and football manager (died 1968).
 - 2 September - Alexander Haslett, independent TD (died 1951).
 - 12 December - Peadar Kearney, Irish Republican and songwriter who wrote the lyrics to The Soldier's Song (died 1942).
 
Full date unknown
- St. John Greer Ervine, author and dramatist (died 1971).
 - Rory O'Connor, Irish republican activist, captured at the fall of the Four Courts and executed (died 1922).
 - Lorcán Ó Muireadais, priest and Irish language promoter.
 - T. F. O'Rahilly, linguist and Irish language scholar (died 1953)
 - Louisa Watson Peat, writer and lecturer (died 1952)
 
Deaths
- 9 February - Henry John Stephen Smith, mathematician (died 1826).
 - 26 May - Edward Sabine, astronomer, scientist, ornithologist and explorer (born 1788).
 - 25 July - Frederick Edward Maning, writer and judge in New Zealand (born 1812).
 - 22 October - Thomas Mayne Reid, novelist (born 1818).
 - 24 November - William Fitzgerald, Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe (born 1814).
 
Full date unknown
- James Carey, Fenian and informer (born 1845).
 - Robert Dwyer Joyce, music collector and writer (born 1830).
 
References
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