1694 in Ireland

Events

• French Huguenot refugees settle in Portarlington.
• December 28 – with the death of Queen Mary II, William III becomes sole monarch.

  Arts and literature

• January 9 – Henry Purcell's ode Great Parent, Hail! and John Blow's anthem I Beheld, and Lo! are performed in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, at a concert to mark the centenary of Trinity College.
• c. October 25 – Jonathan Swift is appointed to the Church of Ireland prebend of Kilroot, near Carrickfergus in County Antrim.

  Births

• July 16 – Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone, politician
• August 8 – Francis Hutcheson, theologian and philosopher
• November 5 – Sir Robert Blackwood, 1st Baronet
• Michael Cuffe, politician
• Andrew Donlevy, Roman Catholic priest.
• William FitzMaurice, 2nd Earl of Kerry, peer and military officer
• Warden Flood, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland
• Robert Parkinson, lawyer and politician

  Deaths

• July 1 – Justin McCarthy, Viscount Mountcashel, Jacobite general.
• December 28 – Mary II of England, Queen regnant
• c. December – Patrick Adair, Ulster Scots Presbyterian minister
• Valentine Browne, 1st Viscount Kenmare, peer
• Probable date – Sir Brian O'Neill, 2nd Baronet, judge and landowner.