1794 in Ireland

Events from the year 1794 in Ireland.

Incumbent

1 January – Lagan Canal opened throughout from Belfast to Lough Neagh.
4 May – Dublin Society of United Irishmen suppressed.
29 June – physician and poet William Drennan, a leading figure in the Dublin Society of United Irishmen, is tried for seditious libel for circulating a pamphlet Address to the Volunteers in 1792; he is acquitted but withdraws from further direct political commitment.
November – Richard Lovell Edgeworth demonstrates a semaphore line from Donaghadee across the Irish Sea to Portpatrick in Scotland.
Establishment of Ballincollig Gunpowder Mills.
Mary Leadbeater publishes Extracts and Original Anecdotes for the Improvement of Youth anonymously in Dublin.

9 January – Mother Frances Mary Teresa Ball, founder of Irish Branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Loreto schools.
4 March – William Carleton, writer.
23 April – Benjamin Holmes, businessman and politician in Quebec.
6 May – Price Blackwood, 4th [Baron Dufferin and Claneboye], Royal Navy captain.
17 May – Anna Brownell Jameson, writer.
10 July – William Maginn, journalist and writer.
18 July – Feargus O'Connor, political radical and Chartist leader
20 November – Eugene O'Curry, scholar.
;Full date unknown
:*Joseph Patrick Haverty, painter.
:*Sir [Alexander Macdonnell, 1st Baronet], lawyer, civil servant and commissioner of national education in Ireland.