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Events from the year1794 in Ireland.

Incumbent

Monarch:George III

Events

1 January –Lagan Canal opened throughout fromBelfast toLough Neagh.^[1]
4 May –Dublin Society of United Irishmen suppressed.^[2]
29 June – physician and poetWilliam Drennan, a leading figure in the Dublin Society of United Irishmen, is tried forseditious libel for circulating a pamphletAddress to the Volunteers in 1792; he is acquitted but withdraws from further direct political commitment.^[3]
November –Richard Lovell Edgeworth demonstrates asemaphore line fromDonaghadee across the Irish Sea toPortpatrick in Scotland.^[4]
Establishment ofBallincollig Gunpowder Mills.
Mary Leadbeater publishesExtracts 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 (died1861).
4 March –William Carleton, writer (died1869).
23 April –Benjamin Holmes, businessman and politician inQuebec (died1865).
6 May –Price Blackwood, 4th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye,Royal Navy captain (died1841).
17 May –Anna Brownell Jameson, writer (died1860).
10 July –William Maginn, journalist and writer (died1842).
18 July –Feargus O'Connor, political radical andChartist leader (died 1855 in England)
20 November –Eugene O'Curry, scholar (died1862).
Full date unknown
- Joseph Patrick Haverty, painter (died1864).
- Sir Alexander Macdonnell, 1st Baronet, lawyer, civil servant and commissioner of national education in Ireland (died1875).

Deaths

7 June –John Browne, 1st Baron Kilmaine, politician (born1726).
Full date unknown
- Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby, Archbishop of Armagh and founder of theArmagh Observatory (born1709).

References

^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. Retrieved2013-08-19.(subscription,Wikipedia Library access orUK 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.

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