1794 in Ireland

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Last updated August 07, 2022

Events from the year 1794 in Ireland.

Events

1 January – Lagan Canal opened throughout from Belfast to Lough Neagh.^[1]
4 May – Dublin Society of United Irishmen suppressed.^[2]
29 June – physician and poet William Drennan, a leading figure in the Dublin Society of United Irishmen, is tried for seditious libel for circulating a pamphlet Address to the Volunteers in 1792; he is acquitted but withdraws from further direct political commitment.^[3]
November – Richard Lovell Edgeworth demonstrates a semaphore line from Donaghadee across the Irish Sea to Portpatrick in Scotland.^[4]
Establishment of Ballincollig Gunpowder Mills.
Mary Leadbeater publishes Extracts and Original Anecdotes for the Improvement of Youth anonymously in Dublin.

Births

9 January – Mother Frances Mary Teresa Ball, founder of Irish Branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Loreto schools (died 1861).
4 March – William Carleton, writer (died 1869).
23 April – Benjamin Holmes, businessman and politician in Quebec (died 1865).
6 May – Price Blackwood, 4th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, Royal Navy captain (died 1841).
17 May – Anna Brownell Jameson, writer (died 1860).
10 July – William Maginn, journalist and writer (died 1842).
18 July – Feargus O'Connor, political radical and Chartist leader (died 1855 in England)
20 November – Eugene O'Curry, scholar (died 1862).
Full date unknown
- Joseph Patrick Haverty, painter (died 1864).
- Sir Alexander Macdonnell, 1st Baronet, lawyer, civil servant and commissioner of national education in Ireland (died 1875).

Deaths

7 June – John Browne, 1st Baron Kilmaine, politician (born 1726).
Full date unknown
- Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby, Archbishop of Armagh and founder of the Armagh Observatory (born 1709).

Related Research Articles

The Society of United Irishmen was a sworn association in the Kingdom of Ireland formed in the wake of the French Revolution to secure "an equal representation of all the people" in a national government. Despairing of constitutional reform, in 1798 the United Irishmen instigated a republican insurrection in defiance of British Crown forces and of Irish sectarian division. Their suppression was a prelude to the abolition of the Protestant Ascendancy Parliament in Dublin and to Ireland's incorporation in a United Kingdom with Great Britain. An attempt to revive the movement and renew the insurrection following the Acts of Union was defeated in 1803.

William Drennan was an Irish physician and writer who moved the formation in Belfast and Dublin of the Society of United Irishmen. He was the author of the Society's original "test" which, in the cause of representative government, committed "Irishmen of every religious persuasion" to a "brotherhood of affection". Drennan had been active in the Irish Volunteer movement and achieved renown with addresses to the public as his "fellow slaves" and to the British Viceroy urging "full and final" Catholic emancipation. After the suppression of the 1798 Rebellion, he sought to advance democratic reform through his continued journalism and through education. With other United Irish veterans, Drennan founded the Belfast [later the Royal Belfast] Academical Institution. As a poet, he is remembered for his eve-of-rebellion When Erin First Rose (1795) with its reference to Ireland as the "Emerald Isle"

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References

↑ McCutcheon, W. A. (1965). The Canals of the North of Ireland. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4028-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 . Retrieved 2013-08-19.(subscription or UK public library membership required)
↑ Kirwan, Adrian James (2017). "R. L. Edgeworth and optical telegraphy in Ireland, c.1790–1805". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy . Dublin. 117C: 209–35.

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[1] McCutcheon, W. A. (1965). The Canals of the North of Ireland. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4028-X.

[2] Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 374.

[3] McBride, I. R. (2004). "Drennan, William (1754–1820)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8046 . Retrieved 2013-08-19.(subscription or UK public library membership required)

[4] Kirwan, Adrian James (2017). "R. L. Edgeworth and optical telegraphy in Ireland, c.1790–1805". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy . Dublin. 117C: 209–35.

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