* 1994 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.

On 21 January 1994, on the 75th anniversary of the First Dáil Éireann, Continuity IRA volunteers offered a " final salute " to Tom Maguire by firing over his grave, and a public statement and a photo were published in Saoirse Irish Freedom.

A further exception occurs in the case of those counties created after 1994 which often drop the word county entirely, or use it after the name ; thus for example internet search engines show many more uses ( on Irish sites ) of " Fingal " than of either " County Fingal " or " Fingal County ".

* 1994 – The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.

The Downing Street Declaration was issued on 15 December 1993 by Major and Albert Reynolds, the Irish Taoiseach, with whom he had a friendly relationship: an IRA ceasefire followed in 1994.

The LTTE has been accused of hijacking several vessels and ships in waters outside Sri Lanka, including Ocean Trader ( in October 1994 ), Irish Mona ( in August 1995 ), Princess Wave ( in August 1996 ), Athena ( in May 1997 ), Misen ( in July 1997 ), Morong Bong ( in July 1997 ), MV Cordiality ( in September 1997 ), Princess Kash ( in August 1998 ), Newko ( in July 1999 ), Uhana ( in June 2000 ), Fuyuan Ya 225 ( Chinese trawler, in March 2003 ), MV Farah III ( in December 2006 ) and City of Liverpool ( in January 2007 ).

In 1994 DEC sold the PDP-11 system-software rights to Mentec Inc., an Irish producer of LSI-11 based boards for Q-Bus and ISA architecture personal computers, and in 1997 discontinued PDP-11 production.

* 1955 – Frankie Kennedy, Irish flute player ( Altan ) ( d. 1994 )

Other translations include the standard critical edition by Ralph Manheim and John Willett ( 1976 ), one by noted Irish playwright and translator Frank McGuinness ( 1992 ), and another by Jeremy Sams for a production at London's Donmar Warehouse in 1994.

Irish dancing, popularised in 1994 by the world-famous show Riverdance, is notable for its rapid leg and foot movements, body and arms being kept largely stationary.

" Delamarre cites E. Campanile, in Langues indo-européennes (" The name of the Irish Saint Brigid is an adjective of the form * brigenti … ' the Eminent '"), edited by Françoise Bader ( Paris, 1994 ), pp. 34 – 40, that Brigid is a continuation of the Indo-European goddess of the dawn like Aurora .</ ref >) is the daughter of the Dagda and one of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

Another illustration of the progression of performance in the men's mile is that in 1994, forty years after Bannister's breaking of the barrier, the Irish runner Eamonn Coghlan became the first man over the age of 40 to run a sub-four-minute mile.

In 1994, at the request of the Queen, St Davids was again granted city status along with the Irish town of Armagh, " In recognition of their important Christian heritage and their status as cities in the last century ".

In September 1994 Reynolds was infamously stood up by Russian president Boris Yeltsin whose plane landed at Shannon Airport but who failed to emerge to meet the waiting Irish dignatories.

* Irish Place Names, D. Flanagan and L. Flanagan, Dublin, 1994

Irish Academic Press, 1994.

The Irish speaking primary school was founded in 1994 in Oranmore, County Galway.

* Trailer ( album ), a 1994 album from the Northern Irish musical group Ash

In 1994 Baker joined BBM, a short-lived power trio with the lineup of Baker, Jack Bruce and Irish blues rock guitarist Gary Moore.

Ralph Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes was born in Ipswich on 22 December 1962, the eldest child of Mark Fiennes ( 1933 – 2004 ), a farmer and photographer whose father was industrialist Sir Maurice Fiennes ( 1907 – 1994 ), and Jennifer Lash ( 1938 – 1993 ), a writer of English and Irish descent.

The band was threatened with legal action by an Irish pop band of the same name in 1994, and, to avoid a legal dispute, the band appended " 182 " to the end of their name.

Paul Harrington ( Dublin, 8 May 1960 ) is an Irish musician, who, with Charlie McGettigan, won the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland in 1994.

Nonetheless, she appeared in leading roles in several notable films, including the Irish film Widows ' Peak ( 1994 ), Miami Rhapsody ( 1995 ) and Reckless ( also 1995 ).

* Kevin Murphy ( Irish ombudsman ), appointed Ombudsman by the President of Ireland, serving from 1994 to 2003

John Gerard Bruton ( born 18 May 1947 ) is an Irish politician who served as Taoiseach ( prime minister ) of Ireland from 1994 to 1997.

* The Cement Garden ( 1993 ) ( 1994 )

* Standing Firm: A Vice-Presidential Memoir, Harper Collins, May 1994. hardcover, ISBN 0-06-017758-6 ; mass market paperback, May, 1995 ; ISBN 0-06-109390-4 ; Limited edition, 1994, ISBN 0-06-017601-6

* Genrikh Borovik, The Philby Files, 1994, published by Little, Brown & Company Limited, Canada, ISBN 0-316-91015-5.

* Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START I )— signed 1991, ratified 1994: Limited long-range nuclear forces in the United States and the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union to 6, 000 attributed warheads on 1, 600 ballistic missiles and bombers.

* Peter Fritzsche, Karen Hewitt: Berlinwalks, 1994, Boxtree Limited Publishers, ISBN 0-7522-1602-3

Union Carbide sold UCIL, the Bhopal plant operator, to Eveready Industries India Limited in 1994.

* Odd Man Out ( 1994 ) by Ronald Biggs, first published by Bloomsbury Publishing Limited ( ISBN 0-7475-1683-9 ).

Gatwick Express was the first portion of British Rail's InterCity sector to be converted into a separate train operating unit, ready for franchising as a private business with the assets transferred to Gatwick Express Limited ( legal name Gatwick Express Limited, company no 2912338 ) in March 1994.

In 1992 Iveco purchased the Italian company, International Trucks Australia Limited, which still plays a very important role in the Pacific Rim, In the year 1994, and the framework of privatization of Soviet industrial conglomerate now in the hands of the Russian Federation, the factory " UralAZ " along with the Italian automotive giant Iveco would found a joint venture for the production of heavy trucks, a society it would be called later " Iveco / UralAZ " and would later be renamed " Iveco-AMT ".

In 1994, Central was completely bought by Carlton and on 6 September 1999 was rebranded as Carlton Central, though the registered company name remained Central Independent Television Limited.

To gain wider acceptance, it partnered with four other major transit companies in Hong Kong to create a joint-venture business to operate the Octopus system in 1994, then known as Creative Star Limited.

In September 1994, Konami ( Hong Kong ) Limited ( currently Konami Digital Entertainment Limited ) was established in Hong Kong.

Established in September 1994 as Konami ( Hong Kong ) Limited.

In October 1994, Amtrak, with great fanfare, relaunched the Capitol Limited with a new bilevel Superliner II consist.

On 31 January 1994 BAe sold the company on to German vehicle manufacturer BMW for £ 800 million ( a takeover which caused uproar in the House of Commons ), the name changing again in 1995 to BMW ( UK ) Holdings Limited.

Ming Pao Enterprise Corporation Limited got the ownership of Yazhou Zhoukan from Time Warner Inc. in 1994.

MuchMoreMusic was licensed by the CRTC in 1996 ( as well as some of CHUM's other proposals rejected in 1994, including CablePulse24, Space, and Musimax ) and was launched on October 5, 1998 under the ownership of CHUM Limited.

In 1994 it purchased Primary Industry Bank of Australia ( PIBA ) which had operations in Australia and New Zealand, renaming it Rabobank Australia Limited in 2003.

In June 1994, Linda Rankin, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated, ( later incorporated as Lifestyle Television ( 1994 ) Limited, principally owned by Moffat Communications ) was granted a television broadcasting licence from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) to operate a channel called Lifestyle Television, described as offering " information and entertainment programming of particular interest to women.

Nixon resigned from the legislature on July 31, 1991, accepting a federal appointment from the Mulroney government to conduct a review of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited ( Nixon later served as chair of this crown corporation from 1994 to 2001 ).

On Flight Day 9 ( Saturday, 12 March 1994 ) plan called for the operations of the Auroral Photography Experiment, the Commercial Protein Crystal Growth experiment and the Limited Duration Space Environment Candidate Exposure ( LDCE ) experiment.

ENT Limited, a Launceston-based company that owned a number of television and radio stations in regional Victoria and Tasmania, was bought in 1994.