1894 In Ireland

Events from the year 1894 in Ireland.

Events

* 3 March – William Ewart Gladstone resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In his career, he introduced land reform to Ireland and also attempted to grant Home Rule.
* 14 June – hooker ''Victory'' capsizes off Westport, County Mayo with the loss of at least 30 aboard.
* 15 August – the Irish Land and Labour Association is formed at a labour convention at Limerick Junction, County Tipperary, with D. D. Sheehan as chairman and J. J. O'Shee as secretary.
* 28–29 December – the SS ''Inishtrahull'' is lost off Kilkee with the loss of 26 aboard.
* The first meeting of the Irish Trades Union Congress takes place.
* The Irish Agricultural Organisation Society is established by Horace Plunkett. The new organisation encourages the co-operative movement.
* Professor John Joly of Trinity College Dublin, devises a colour photographic process.
* Bewley's open their first café in Dublin.

Arts and literature

* Thomas A. Finlay, S.J., is founding editor of the literary magazine ''The New Ireland Review'' (Dublin, March).
* George Moore publishes ''Esther Waters.''
* Somerville and Ross publish ''The Real Charlotte.''

Sport

Football

*;International
*:24 February Wales 4–1 Ireland (in Swansea)
*:3 March Ireland 2–2 England (in Belfast)
*:31 March Ireland 1–2 Scotland (in Belfast)

*; Irish League
*:Winners: Glentoran

*;Irish Cup
*:Winners: Distillery 2–2, 3–2 Linfield

Golf

*Portmarnock Golf Club, Fingal, and Portstewart Golf Club, County Londonderry, are founded.

Births

*1 January – Augustine Kelly, cricketer (died 1960).
*30 January – Wentworth Allen, cricketer (died 1943).
*22 April – Evie Hone, painter and stained glass artist (died 1955).
*1 May – James Everett, Labour Party TD, Cabinet Minister, famed for ''Battle of Baltinglass'', 44 years service as a TD (died 1967).
*5 May – Joe Keppel, comic performer (died 1977).
*15 June – Maurice Moore, Irish republican fighting in the Irish War of Independence (executed 1921).
*28 June – Ronald Ossory Dunlop, painter and author (died 1973).
*23 July – Norman Stronge, Ulster Unionist Party politician and Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons for 23 years (died 1981).
*9 August – Walter Starkie, author, translator and scholar of southern European civilisations (died 1976 in Spain)
*24 August – Elisha Scott, footballer (died 1959).
*31 August – Patrick Joseph Kelly, Bishop of Benin City (died 1991).
*30 September – Michael Tierney, Cumann na nGaedheal TD, Fine Gael member of Seanad Éireann and President of University College Dublin (died 1975).
*3 October – Frederick Jeremiah Edwards, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 at Thiepval, France (died 1964).
*14 October – Tom McEllistrim, Fianna Fáil TD (died 1973).
*14 November – Daniel Joseph Sheehan, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps pilot in World War I, killed in action (died 1917).
*17 December – Cecile O'Rahilly, scholar of the Celtic languages and writer (died 1980).
*Approximate date – Patricia Lynch, children's writer (died 1972).

Deaths

*20 January – Robert Halpin, master mariner (born 1836).
*30 August – Joseph Robinson Kirk, sculptor (born 1821).
*26 September – Launt Thompson, sculptor (born 1833).
*28 December – James Graham Fair, part-owner of the Comstock Lode, United States Senator and real estate and railroad speculator (born 1831).

References

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