Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Athletics 3.2 Cycling 3.3 Football 3.4 Golf 3.5 Hurling 3.6 Motor racing 4 Births 5 Deaths 5.1 January to June 5.2 July to December

[edit] Events

• January 1 - Limerick City celebrates 300 years of the Treaty of Limerick.
• January 6 - The Irish Government and the EC Commission meet in Dublin to officially launch the Irish EC Presidency.
• January 17 - There controversy as the government allows US war planes to refuel at Shannon Airport.
• January 24 - The new Government Buildings in the renovated College of Science are officially opened.
• February 7 - The IRA fires mortar bombs at 10 Downing Street in London.
• March 14 - After being wrongfully jailed for 16 years, the Birmingham Six are freed.
• March 16 - Dublin is officially inaugurated as the European City of Culture.
• June 26 - The wrongful convictions of the Maguire Seven are quashed.
• November 6 - Kildare TD Seán Power proposes a no-confidence motion in Charles Haughey's leadership.
• November 7 - The Minister for Finance, Albert Reynolds, is sacked from the government over his intention to support the no-confidence motion.
• November 13 - Jim McDaid, the new Defence Minister, resigns following criticism from the opposition over his attendance at an IRA funeral.

[edit] Arts and literature

• November - Opening of the Dublin Writers Museum

[edit] Sport

[edit] Athletics

• Frank O'Mara wins the world indoor 3000m championship for the second time.

[edit] Cycling

• 19 October - Seán Kelly wins the Tour of Lombardy.

[edit] Football

• The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final finishes on a score of Down GAA 1-16 Meath GAA 1-14.

[edit] Golf

• Carroll's Irish Open is won by Nick Faldo (England).

[edit] Hurling

• The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final finishes on a score of Tipperary GAA 1-16 Kilkenny GAA 0-15.

[edit] Motor racing

• Eddie Jordan enters his Jordan team in the World Formula One Championship, becoming the first Irish owned constructor in Formula One.

[edit] Births

• 28 February - Sarah Bolger, actress.
• 16 August - Evanna Lynch, actress.

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January to June

• 5 January - Hubert Butler, writer and historian (b.1900)
• 29 January - Joe Stynes, Irish Republican and sportsman (b.1903).
• 19 February - Thekla Beere, civil servant (b.1902).
• 20 April - Sean O'Faolain, short story writer (b.1900).
• 22 May - Valentin Iremonger, poet and diplomat (b.1918).
• 25 May - John M. Feehan, author and publisher (b.1916).
• 25 May - Eddie Fullerton, Sinn Féin councillor, killed by the Ulster Defence Association (b.1935).

[edit] July to December

• 17 October - J. G. Devlin, actor (b.1907).
• 13 November - Francis Blackwood, 10th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (b.1916).
• 12 November - Billy Behan, soccer player and scout (b.1911).
• 15 November - George Otto Simms, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and Archbishop of Armagh (b.1910).
• 19 November - Michael Lyons, Fine Gael TD and Senator (b.1910).
• 1 December - Pat O'Callaghan, athlete and Olympic gold-medallist (b.1905).