1794 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1794 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

  • Monarch: George III

Events[]

  • 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.

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).

References[]

  1. ^ McCutcheon, W. A. (1965). The Canals of the North of Ireland. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4028-X.
  2. ^ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 374.
  3. ^ 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)
  4. ^ Kirwan, Adrian James (2017). "R. L. Edgeworth and optical telegraphy in Ireland, c.1790–1805". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Dublin. 117C: 209–35.
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