- 1794 in Ireland
Events
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4 May -Dublin Society of United Irishmen suppressed. [cite book | last=Moody, TW & Martin, FX (eds)| year=1967 |title=The Course of Irish History | publisher=The Mercier Press | location=Cork, Ireland | pages=p 374]Births
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9 January -Mother Frances Mary Teresa Ball , founder of Irish Branch of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Loreto schools (d.1861).
*23 April -Benjamin Holmes , businessman and politician inQuebec (d.1865).
*6 May -Price Blackwood, 4th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye ,Royal Navy captain (d.1841).
*17 May -Anna Brownell Jameson , writer (d.1860).
*20 November -Eugene O'Curry , scholar (d.1862).Full date unknown
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Joseph Patrick Haverty , painter (d.1864).
*William Maginn , journalist and writer (d.1842).
*Sir Alexander McDonnell, 1st Baronet , lawyer, civil servant and commissioner of national education in Ireland (d.1875).Deaths
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7 June -John Browne, 1st Baron Kilmaine , politician (b.1726).Full date unknown
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Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby , Archbishop of Armagh and founder of theArmagh Observatory (b.1709).References
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