1993 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1993 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

• Secretary of State – Patrick Mayhew

Events

• 24 June – Northern Ireland Minister Michael Mates resigns over links with tycoon Asil Nadir.
• 23 October – Shankill Road bombing carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Belfast. There are 10 fatalities, including the bomber.
• 30 October – Greysteel massacre carried out by Ulster Freedom Fighters, at the Rising Sun Bar in Greysteel. Eight civilians are shot dead.
• 9 December – Footballer Danny Blanchflower dies of Alzheimer's disease aged 67.
• 15 December – Albert Reynolds and John Major issue their joint Downing Street Declaration.

Arts and literature

• Ciarán Carson's First Language: Poems collection is published and wins the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Sport

Football

• Irish League

:Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

:Winners: Bangor 1 – 1, 1 – 1, 1 – 0 Ards (all matches after extra time)

Motorcycling

• Cookstown 100 125cc race

:Winner: Robert Dunlop

Mountaineering

• 27 May – Belfast architect Dawson Stelfox becomes one of the first Irish people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Births

• 24 November – Saoirse-Monica Jackson, actress

Deaths

• 23 March – Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon (born 1911).
• 14 September – Sheelagh Murnaghan, only Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament at Stormont (born 1924).
• 23 October – Thomas Begley, Provisional Irish Republican Army member killed planting a bomb (born 1970).
• 15 November – Jimmy McAlinden, footballer and football manager (born 1917).
• 9 December – Danny Blanchflower, footballer and football manager (born 1926).

See also

• 1993 in England
• 1993 in Scotland
• 1993 in Wales

References