Events from the year 1993 in Ireland.
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Association football
Domestic football
International football
Athletics
Gaelic football
Golf
Hurling
Mountaineering
Births
- 6 January â Al Porter, entertainer
- 21 February â Shane Dowling, hurler (Na Piarsaigh, Limerick).
- 20 April â Dan Morrissey, hurler (Ahane, Limerick)
- 25 April â Josh van der Flier, Rugby player
- 6 June â Aisling Franciosi, screen actress
- 27 June â Rejjie Snow, born Alex Anyaegbunam, hip hop musician
- 7 July â Ciarán Kilkenny, Gaelic footballer
- 5 August â Patrick McBrearty, Donegal Gaelic football superstar
- 13 September â Niall Horan, member of boy band One Direction
Deaths
- 5 February â Seán Flanagan, Gaelic footballer, captain of winning Mayo All Ireland football teams in 1950s, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP (born 1922).
- 11 February â Brian Inglis, journalist, historian and television presenter (born 1916).
- 15 February â Peter Kavanagh, soccer player (born 1910).
- 23 March â Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon (born 1911).
- April â Denis Hegarty, public servant.
- 5 May â Dermot Boyle, Marshal of the Royal Air Force (born 1904).
- 29 June â Patrick Lindsay, Fine Gael TD and lawyer (born 1914).
- 28 July â Stanley Woods, motor cycle racer, with 29 Grand Prix wins and 10 Isle of Man TT wins (born 1903).
- 14 September â Sheelagh Murnaghan, only Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament at Stormont (born 1924).
- 7 October â Cyril Cusack, actor (born 1910).
- 1 November â Maeve Brennan, short story writer and journalist (born 1917).
- 15 November â Jimmy McAlinden, soccer player and manager (born 1917).
- 28 November â Joe Kelly, motor racing driver (born 1913).
- 29 December â Marie Kean, actress (born 1918).
- 31 December â Michael Cleary, priest and media personality, throat cancer (born 1933)
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