1794 in Ireland
Events from the year 1794 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- 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.
Births
- 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.
Deaths
- 7 June – John Browne, 1st Baron Kilmaine, politician.
- ;Full date unknown
- :*Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby, Archbishop of Armagh and founder of the Armagh Observatory.