1894 in Ireland

Events from the year 1894 in Ireland.

Events

 * 3 March –  William Ewart Gladstone resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In his career, he introduced land reform to Ireland and also attempted to grant Home Rule.
 * 14 June – hooker Victory capsizes off Westport, County Mayo with the loss of at least 30 aboard.
 * 15 August – the Irish Land and Labour Association is formed at a labour convention at Limerick Junction, County Tipperary, with D. D. Sheehan as chairman and J. J. O'Shee as secretary.
 * 28–29 December – the SS Inishtrahull is lost off Kilkee with the loss of 26 aboard.
 * The first meeting of the Irish Trades Union Congress takes place.
 * The Irish Agricultural Organisation Society is established by Horace Plunkett. The new organisation encourages the co-operative movement.
 * Professor John Joly of Trinity College Dublin, devises a colour photographic process.
 * Bewley's open their first café in Dublin.

Arts and literature

 * Thomas A. Finlay, S.J., is founding editor of the literary magazine The New Ireland Review (Dublin, March).
 * George Moore publishes Esther Waters.
 * Somerville and Ross publish The Real Charlotte.

Football

 * International
 * 24 February Wales 4–1 Ireland (in Swansea)
 * 3 March Ireland 2–2 England (in Belfast)
 * 31 March Ireland 1–2 Scotland (in Belfast)


 * Irish League
 * Winners: Glentoran


 * Irish Cup
 * Winners: Distillery 2–2, 3–2 Linfield

Golf

 * Portmarnock Golf Club, Fingal, and Portstewart Golf Club, County Londonderry, are founded.

Births

 * 1 January – Augustine Kelly, cricketer (died 1960).
 * 30 January – Wentworth Allen, cricketer (died 1943).
 * 22 April – Evie Hone, painter and stained glass artist (died 1955).
 * 1 May – James Everett, Labour Party TD, Cabinet Minister, famed for Battle of Baltinglass, 44 years service as a TD (died 1967).
 * 5 May – Joe Keppel, comic performer (died 1977).
 * 4 June – Patricia Lynch, children's writer (died 1972).
 * 15 June – Maurice Moore, Irish republican fighting in the Irish War of Independence (executed 1921).
 * 28 June – Ronald Ossory Dunlop, painter and author (died 1973).
 * 22 July – Florence O'Donoghue, historian and Irish Republican Army intelligence officer (died 1967).
 * 23 July – Norman Stronge, Ulster Unionist Party politician and Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons for 23 years (died 1981).
 * 9 August – Walter Starkie, author, translator and scholar of southern European civilisations (died 1976 in Spain)
 * 24 August – Elisha Scott, footballer (died 1959).
 * 31 August – Patrick Joseph Kelly, Bishop of Benin City (died 1991).
 * 30 September – Michael Tierney, Cumann na nGaedheal TD, Fine Gael member of Seanad Éireann and President of University College Dublin (died 1975).
 * 3 October – Frederick Jeremiah Edwards, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 at Thiepval, France (died 1964).
 * 14 October – Tom McEllistrim, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1973).
 * 14 November – Daniel Joseph Sheehan, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps pilot in World War I, killed in action (died 1917).
 * 17 December – Cecile O'Rahilly, scholar of the Celtic languages and writer (died 1980).

Deaths

 * 20 January – Robert Halpin, master mariner (born 1836).
 * 30 August – Joseph Robinson Kirk, sculptor (born 1821).
 * 26 September – Launt Thompson, sculptor (born 1833).
 * 28 December – James Graham Fair, part-owner of the Comstock Lode, United States Senator and real estate and railroad speculator (born 1831).