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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.
  • 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&ndash;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

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Football

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