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. 28–29 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 Football International 24 February Wales 4–1 Ireland (in Swansea) 3 March Ireland 2–2 England (in Belfast) 31 March Ireland 1–2 Scotland (in Belfast) 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 (died 1960). 30 January – Wentworth Allen, cricketer (died 1943). 22 April – Evie Hone, painter and stained glass artist (died 1955). 1 May – James Everett, Labour Party TD, Cabinet Minister, famed for Battle of Baltinglass, 44 years service as a TD (died 1967). 5 May – Joe Keppel, comic performer (died 1977). 15 June – Maurice Moore, Irish republican fighting in the Irish War of Independence (executed 1921). 28 June – Ronald Ossory Dunlop, painter and author (died 1973). 23 July – Norman Stronge, Ulster Unionist Party politician and Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons for 23 years (died 1981). 9 August – Walter Starkie, author, translator and scholar of southern European civilisations (died 1976 in Spain) 24 August – Elisha Scott, footballer (died 1959). 31 August – Patrick Joseph Kelly, Bishop of Benin City (died 1991). 30 September – Michael Tierney, Cumann na nGaedheal TD, Fine Gael member of Seanad Éireann and President of University College Dublin