1894 in Ireland

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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.
• 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 Trade 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).
• 1 May - James Everett, Labour Party TD, Cabinet Minister, famed for Battle of Baltinglass, 44 years service as a TD (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, 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).

Full date unknown

• Eddie Duffy, traditional Irish musician (died 1986).
• Ronald Ossory Dunlop, painter and author (died 1973).
• Evie Hone, painter and stained glass artist (died 1955).
• Billy McCandless, footballer and football manager (died 1955).
• Walter Starkie, author and translator (died 1976).

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).