1794 in Ireland
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Events from the year1794 in Ireland.
Incumbent
[edit]Events
[edit]- 1 January –Lagan Canalopened throughout fromBelfasttoLough Neagh.[1]
- 4 May –DublinSociety of United Irishmensuppressed.[2]
- 29 June – physician and poetWilliam Drennan,a leading figure in the Dublin Society of United Irishmen, is tried forseditious libelfor circulating a pamphletAddress to the Volunteersin 1792; he is acquitted but withdraws from further direct political commitment.[3]
- November –Richard Lovell Edgeworthdemonstrates asemaphore linefromDonaghadeeacross the Irish Sea toPortpatrickin Scotland.[4]
- Establishment ofBallincollig Gunpowder Mills.
- Mary LeadbeaterpublishesExtracts and Original Anecdotes for the Improvement of Youthanonymously in Dublin.
Births
[edit]- 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 Navycaptain (died1841).
- 17 May –Anna Brownell Jameson,writer (died1860).
- 10 July –William Maginn,journalist and writer (died1842).
- 18 July –Feargus O'Connor,political radical andChartistleader (died 1855 in England)
- 20 November –Eugene O'Curry,scholar (died1862).
- Full date unknown
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- Joseph Patrick Haverty,painter (died1864).
- Sir Alexander Macdonnell, 1st Baronet,lawyer, civil servant and commissioner of national education in Ireland (died1875).
Deaths
[edit]- 7 June –John Browne, 1st Baron Kilmaine,politician (born1726).
- Full date unknown
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- Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby,Archbishop of Armagh and founder of theArmagh Observatory(born1709).
References
[edit]- ^McCutcheon, W. A. (1965).The Canals of the North of Ireland.Newton Abbot: David and Charles.ISBN0-7153-4028-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 orUK public library membershiprequired)
- ^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.