1894 in Ireland

• 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). • 4 June – Patricia Lynch, children's writer (died 1972). • 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). • 22 July – Florence O'Donoghue, historian and Irish Republican Army intelligence officer (died 1967). • 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). ==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). ==See also==