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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 3.2 Motorcycling 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• 24 January - The international body proposes six principles of democracy and non-violence ('the Mitchell principles') as conditions for entry to all-party talks in Northern Ireland.
• 31 March - Crumlin Road (HM Prison) in Belfast is closed.
• 1 October - Radio station Belfast CityBeat begins broadcasting.
• Northern Ireland Forum is established.

[edit] Arts and literature

• Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark is published.
• Seamus Heaney publishes the collection, The Spirit Level which wins the Whitbread Book of the Year Award.

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• Irish League

Winners: Portadown

• Irish Cup

Winners: Glentoran 1 - 0 Glenavon

[edit] Motorcycling

• 20 April - Robert Dunlop, after an accident in 1994, returns to race in the Cookstown 100, taking ninth place in the 125cc race won by brother, Joey Dunlop.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• 12 February - Bob Shaw, science fiction novelist (b.1931).
• 6 August - Havelock Nelson, composer and pianist (b.1917).
• 1 October - Pat McGeown, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (b.1956).
• 4 October - Humphrey Atkins, fifth Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
• 17 December - Ruby Murray, singer (b.1935).