The Irish famine of 1879 was the last main Irish famine. Unlike the earlier Great Famines of 1740–1741 and 1845–1852, the 1879 famine (sometimes called...

Events from the year 1879 in Ireland. Second year of Mini-famine (1878–1880) which has its greatest impact in the "wet" West of Ireland where the potato harvest...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1879. 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...

Staughton Lynd (1892–1970), American sociologist Robert Wilson Lynd (1879–1949), Irish writer Bob Lind (born 1942), singer/songwriter This disambiguation...

Irish collector of tunes John J. Kimmel (1866–1942) Irish musician Elizabeth Cronin (1879–1956) Irish folk singer Michael Coleman (1891–1945) Irish fiddler...

(15 July 1879 – 22 September 1961) was an Irish-born soldier and a recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for gallantry in the face of...

1879 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships College championship College football national championship...

site and national shrine in the village of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland, where locals claimed to have seen an apparition in 1879 of the Blessed Virgin Mary...

Y., pseudonym of Robert Wilson Lynd (1879–1949), Irish essayist Peptide YY 3-36, a peptide secreted by the gut in response to a meal, and reduces appetite...

literary events and publications of 1879. January 1 – Benjamin Henry Blackwell opens the first Blackwell's bookshop, in Oxford. January 11 – During construction...

Events from the year 1879 in art. April 10 – May 11 – Fourth Impressionist exhibition in Paris, arranged by Gustave Caillebotte at 28 avenue de l'Opéra...

activist John Ireland (bishop) (1838–1918), Irish-born American Catholic bishop John Ireland (composer) (1879–1962), English composer John Ireland (cricketer)...

many Irish farmers were unable to pay the rents that they had agreed, particularly in the poorer and wetter parts of Connacht. The localised 1879 Famine...

1879 c. 32 Municipal Elections (Ireland) Act 1879 c. 53 Mutiny Act (Temporary) Continuance Act 1879 c. 4 National School Teachers (Ireland) Act 1879 c...

original text related to this article: Acts of Parliament, 1879 Events from the year 1879 in Canada. Monarch – Victoria Governor General – John Campbell...

division of the Northern Ireland Football League. The club was founded in September 1879 by John McAlery in the suburb of Cliftonville in north Belfast and are...

matches are a series of international friendlies held between the England, Ireland and Scotland national rugby union teams. The only recognised competition...

November 1879 – 21 July 1968) was an Irish international footballer, active in both Ireland and England, who played as a full back. Born in the Ballynafeigh...

Sydney Riot of 1879 was an instance of civil disorder that occurred at an early international cricket match. It took place on 8 February 1879 at what is now...

political rivals, notably the Irish Liberal Party and the Irish Conservative Party. Isaac Butt 1873–1879. William Shaw 1879–1880. Charles Stewart Parnell...

 170, note 164. "The Children of Tuireann". P.W. Joyce (translator). 1879. Old Irish Romances. C. Kegan Paul & Co. Bibliography O'Curry, Eugene, ed. (1863)...

Land War (Irish: Cogadh na Talún) was a period of agrarian agitation in rural Ireland (then wholly part of the United Kingdom) that began in 1879. It may...

Northern Football Union of Ireland, which controlled the Belfast area and was founded in January 1875. The IRFU was formed in 1879 as an amalgamation of these...

and author Dick Doyle (Wexford hurler) (1879–1946), Irish hurler Dick Doyle (Kilkenny hurler) (1888–1959), Irish hurler Dick Doyle (American football) (1930–2003)...

In Irish mythology, Bodb Derg (Old Irish, pronounced [ˌboðβ ˈdʲeɾɡ]) or Bodhbh Dearg (Middle Irish and Modern Irish, pronounced [ˌbˠoːw ˈdʲaɾˠəɡ]) was...

Murphy, Irish politician Patrick Norton, Irish politician Patrick Palmer, Irish politician Patrick Pearse (aka Pádraig Pearse) (1879–1916), Irish activist...

Europe in 1879 but, by this time, the Land War (one of the largest agrarian movements to take place in 19th-century Europe) had begun in Ireland. The movement...

The Statute Law Revision (Ireland) Act 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 24), sometimes called the Irish Statute Law Revision Act, is an act of the Parliament of...

Joseph Campbell (15 July 1879 – 6 June 1944) was an Irish poet and lyricist. He wrote under the Irish form of his name Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil (also Seosamh...

Sasassa Valley" in Chambers's Journal. Construction of Royalty Theatre, Glasgow, completed. Timeline of Scottish history 1879 in Ireland Jensen, Andrew...