1994 in Ireland

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April 14 - The Central Bank issues a new £5 note.
April 30 - Ireland wins the 39th Eurovision Song Contest with the song Rock 'n' Roll Kids.
May 26 - Jack Charlton is awarded the freedom of Dublin City.
June 6 - Irish D-Day veterans join Allied leaders at a 50th commemorative ceremony on Omaha Beach.
July 26 - The Minister for Education, Niamh Bhreathnach, pledges the introduction of free third-level education for everyone over the next three years.
August 31 - The IRA announces a complete cessation of military operations.
September 1 - Transition Year is introduced mainstream, to secondary schools.
September 6 - An Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, John Hume and Gerry Adams hold an historic meeting at Government Buildings. All three pledge their commitment to the democratic idea.
September 30 - An Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and members of the government wait at Shannon Airport to greet President Boris Yeltsin. He fails to leave the aircraft to meet them.
October 13 - Loyalist paramilitary groups announce a ceasefire six weeks after the IRA.
October 28 - The inaugural session of the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation takes place in St. Patricks Hall, Dublin Castle.
November 16 - The Fianna Fáil-Labour coalition collapses.
November 17 - Albert Reynolds tenders his resignation as Taoiseach. However, the Dáil is not dissolved.
November 19 - Bertie Ahern is elected leader of Fianna Fáil.

Eamonn Coghlan becomes the first person in the world over 40 years of age to run a sub-four minute (indoor) mile.
In the World Cup Finals in the United States, the Republic of Ireland football team reaches the last 16 before losing 2-0 to the Netherlands, but on the way picks up its first World Cup win, a 1-0 win vs. Italy.

1 January - Raymond Crotty, economist.
1 January - Andy McEvoy, soccer player (b.1938).
6 March - Flann Campbell, educationists and historian.
12 May - Alfred Lane Beit, British politician, art collector and philanthropist, honorary Irish citizen (b.1903).
27 May - M.J. Molloy, playwright.
17 June - Terence de Vere White, lawyer, novelist and biographer (b.1912).
27 June - William Conolly-Carew, 6th Baron Carew (b.1905).
18 July - Davoren Hanna, poet.
19 July - Éilis Dillon, author (b.1920).
18 August - Martin Cahill, Dublin criminal, shot and killed (b.1949).
6 December - Máire de Paor, archaeologist.
20 December - Stephen Coughlan, Irish Labour Party TD and Mayor of Limerick (b.1910).