1794 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: George III

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 (died 1861).
• 4 March – William Carleton, writer (died 1869).
• 23 April – Benjamin Holmes, businessman and politician in Quebec (died 1865).
• 6 May – Price Blackwood, 4th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, Royal Navy captain (died 1841).
• 17 May – Anna Brownell Jameson, writer (died 1860).
• 10 July – William Maginn, journalist and writer (died 1842).
• 18 July – Feargus O'Connor, political radical and Chartist leader (died 1855 in England)
• 20 November – Eugene O'Curry, scholar (died 1862).
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Joseph Patrick Haverty, painter (died 1864).
• :*Sir Alexander Macdonnell, 1st Baronet, lawyer, civil servant and commissioner of national education in Ireland (died 1875).

Deaths

• 7 June – John Browne, 1st Baron Kilmaine, politician (born 1726).
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby, Archbishop of Armagh and founder of the Armagh Observatory (born 1709).

References

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