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1991 in Northern Ireland

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Centuries:
  
20th 21st

Decades:
  
1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

Incumbents

  • Monarch - Elizabeth II

    • Events

  • 3 June - The British Army kill three Provisional Irish Republican Army members in Coagh.
  • 2 November - An IRA bomb explodes in Musgrave Park Hospital killing two British Army soldiers and injuring 11 other people.

    • Arts and literature

  • Brian Keenan publishes An Evil Cradling, an autobiographical account of more than four years as a hostage in Beirut.
  • Michael Longley's collection Gorse Fires is published; it will win the Whitbread Poetry Award.

    • Football

  • Irish League
  • Irish Cup

    • Motorcycling

  • Robert Dunlop wins the 125cc race at the Cookstown 100, and the 125cc and Junior TT races at the Isle of Man TT.

    • Deaths

  • 17 October - J. G. Devlin, actor (born 1907).
  • 13 November - Francis Blackwood, 10th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (born 1916).
  • November - George Otto Simms, Archbishop of Armagh.

    • Full date unknown

  • Professor John Dundee, leading anaesthetist (born 1921).

    • References

    1991 in Northern Ireland Wikipedia
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