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.
• 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.
• George Moore publishes Esther Waters.
• Somerville and Ross publish The Real Charlotte.

  Sport

Football

• ;International
• :24 February Wales 4–1 Ireland
• :3 March Ireland 2–2 England
• :31 March Ireland 1–2 Scotland
• ;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.
• 30 January – Wentworth Allen, cricketer.
• 22 April – Evie Hone, painter and stained glass artist.
• 1 May – James Everett, Labour Party TD, Cabinet Minister, famed for Battle of Baltinglass, 44 years service as a TD.
• 5 May – Joe Keppel, comic performer.
• 15 June – Maurice Moore, Irish republican fighting in the Irish War of Independence.
• 28 June – Ronald Ossory Dunlop, painter and author.
• 23 July – Norman Stronge, Ulster Unionist Party politician and Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons for 23 years.
• 9 August – Walter Starkie, author, translator and scholar of southern European civilisations
• 24 August – Elisha Scott, footballer.
• 31 August – Patrick Joseph Kelly, Bishop of Benin City.
• 30 September – Michael Tierney, Cumann na nGaedheal TD, Fine Gael member of Seanad Éireann and President of University College Dublin.
• 3 October – Frederick Jeremiah Edwards, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1916 at Thiepval, France.
• 14 October – Tom McEllistrim, Fianna Fáil TD.
• 14 November – Daniel Joseph Sheehan, Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps pilot in World War I, killed in action.
• 17 December – Cecile O'Rahilly, scholar of the Celtic languages and writer.
• Approximate date – Patricia Lynch, children's writer.

  Deaths

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