1794 in Ireland

Events from the year 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).