1794 in Ireland

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See also:	Other events of 1794 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1794 in Ireland.

Incumbent

1 January – Lagan Canal opened throughout from Belfast to Lough Neagh.^[1]
4 May – Dublin Society of United Irishmen suppressed.^[2]
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.^[3]
November – Richard Lovell Edgeworth demonstrates a semaphore line from Donaghadee across the Irish Sea to Portpatrick in Scotland.^[4]
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 (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).

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).

^ McCutcheon, W. A. (1965). The Canals of the North of Ireland. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4028-X.
^ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 374.
^ McBride, I. R. (2004). "Drennan, William (1754–1820)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8046. Retrieved 2013-08-19. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ Kirwan, Adrian James (2017). "R. L. Edgeworth and optical telegraphy in Ireland, c.1790–1805". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 117C. Dublin: 209–35.