{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{YearInIrelandNav | 1794 }} Events from the year '''1794 in Ireland'''.
==Incumbent== *Monarch: George III
==Events== *1 January – Lagan Canal opened throughout from Belfast to Lough Neagh.<ref>{{cite book|first=W. A.|last=McCutcheon|title=The Canals of the North of Ireland|location=Newton Abbot|publisher=David and Charles|year=1965|isbn=0-7153-4028-X}}</ref> *4 May – Dublin Society of United Irishmen suppressed.<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Moody, T. W.|editor2=Martin, F. X.|year=1967|title=The Course of Irish History|publisher=Mercier Press|location=Cork|page=374}}</ref> *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.<ref>{{cite web|first=I. R.|last=McBride|title=Drennan, William (1754–1820)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|edition=Online|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8046|access-date=2013-08-19|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/8046}} {{ODNBsub}}</ref> *November – Richard Lovell Edgeworth demonstrates a semaphore line from Donaghadee across the Irish Sea to Portpatrick in Scotland.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Adrian James|last=Kirwan|title=R. L. Edgeworth and optical telegraphy in Ireland, c.1790–1805|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy|location=Dublin|volume=117C|year=2017|pages=209–35}}</ref> *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<!--This is a description list; please see Help:List before changing--> *:*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<!--This is a description list; please see Help:List before changing--> *:*Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby, Archbishop of Armagh and founder of the Armagh Observatory (born 1709).
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