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1992 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1992 in Ireland.

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Incumbents

  • President: Mary Robinson
  • Taoiseach: Charles Haughey (FF) (until February 11, 1992); Albert Reynolds (FF) (starting February 11, 1992)

    • Events

  • 20 January - Peter Brooke offers to resign as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland following criticism of his singing on The Late Late Show only hours after an IRA bomb explodes.
  • 30 January - Charles Haughey resigns as Taoiseach and as leader of Fianna Fáil.
  • 31 January - The Irish government sells the British and Irish Steam Packet Company (B+I Line) to the Irish Continental Group.
  • 4 February
  • Mary Robinson becomes the first President of Ireland to visit Belfast.
  • An off-duty RUC officer in Belfast kills three people in a Sinn Féin office before committing suicide.
  • 5 February - Loyalist gunmen kill five Catholics in an attack on a bookmaker's shop in Belfast.
  • 6 February - Albert Reynolds is elected the fifth leader of Fianna Fáil.
  • 11 February - Charles Haughey resigns as Taoiseach. Albert Reynolds collects his seal of office as his successor.
  • 18 February - Taoiseach Albert Reynolds discusses the situation with other party leaders as the High Court prevents a 14-year-old rape victim from going to Britain for an abortion.
  • 26 February - The Supreme Court lift the High Court ruling preventing a 14-year-old girl from going to Britain for an abortion; the abortion is performed in England.
  • 15 March - Proinsias De Rossa leads a breakaway group from the Workers' Party to form what would shortly become Democratic Left. The majority of the breakaway group including De Rossa would later join the Labour Party.
  • 13 April – 250 years after the first performance of Handel's Messiah in Dublin, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields performs the oratario at the Point Theatre.
  • 7 May - Bishop Eamon Casey of Galway resigns following the revelation that he is the father of a teenage boy.
  • 9 May - Linda Martin wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with Why Me?, composed by previous winner Johnny Logan. This would be the first of three consecutive Irish wins.
  • 31 May - Christy O'Connor Jnr wins the British Masters golf tournament.
  • 18 June - A referendum in the Republic approves the Maastricht Treaty on European Union: 69.1% in favour; 30.9% against.
  • 8 July - President Mary Robinson addresses both houses of the Oireachtas.
  • 23 September - The IRA destroys Belfast's forensic science laboratory with a huge bomb.
  • 5 November - The government loses a confidence motion and the Dáil is dissolved. Two former Taoisigh, Charles Haughey and Garret FitzGerald, announce their retirement from politics.
  • 25 November - Three referendums are held in the Republic on abortion-related issues: the right to travel and the right to (abortion-related) information is supported.
  • 31 December - Unemployment reaches record levels: 290,000 people are out of work.

    • Undated

  • An appearance by Christine Buckley on The Gay Byrne Show brings an "overwhelming response" from others who felt they had been victims of incarceration and abuse in industrial schools.

    • Arts and literature

  • April - Patrick McCabe's novel The Butcher Boy is published.
  • 11 September - Colm Tóibín's novel The Heather Blazing is published.
  • 23 September - The Irish Film Institute opens the Irish Film Centre in Dublin.
  • 30 September - Vincent Woods' play At the Black Pig's Dyke opens at the Druid Theatre Company.
  • 30 October - Neil Jordan's film The Crying Game goes on general release in the U.K. and Ireland.
  • Samuel Beckett's first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, is finally published.
  • Maeve Binchy's novel The Copper Beech is published.
  • Eugene McCabe's novel Death and Nightingales is published.

    • Gaelic football

  • Donegal GAA beat Dublin GAA 0-18 to 0-14 to win their first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

    • Golf

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

    • Hurling

  • Kilkenny GAA beat Cork GAA 3-10 to 1-12 in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final.

    • Olympics

  • 8 August - Michael Carruth wins Ireland's first gold medal in 36 years at the Olympic Games in Barcelona. Wayne McCullough wins a silver medal.

    • Soccer

  • 5 April - Shelbourne win their first League of Ireland Championship for thirty years.

    • Births

  • 13 January - Ryan Connolly, footballer.
  • 16 January - Matt Doherty, footballer
  • 25 January - Dean McCarthy, actor, dancer and model
  • 27 January – Sam Barry, tennis player
  • 11 February - Aidan Bissett, footballer.
  • 7 May - Robbie Benson, footballer.
  • 22 July - George Dockrell, cricketer.
  • 27 July - Neil R. Barrett, rugby player.
  • 24 November - Aaron Barry, footballer.

    • Full date unknown

  • Aisling Dunphy, camogie player and student.
  • Sophie Vavasseur, actress.

    • Deaths

  • 9 January - Bill Naughton, playwright and author (born 1910).
  • 20 March - Michael MacLaverty, novelist (born 1904).
  • 28 April - Francis Bacon, painter (born 1909).
  • 12 May - Joseph Raftery, archaeologist.
  • 13 May - F. E. McWilliam, sculptor (born 1909).
  • 20 May - James Tully, former Labour Party TD and Cabinet Minister (born 1915).
  • 3 June - Patrick Peyton, the Rosary Priest (born 1909).
  • 6 July - Bryan Guinness, 2nd Lord Moyne, lawyer and poet.
  • 21 July - Aloys Fleischmann, composer and musicologist (born 1910).
  • 17 August - Tom Nolan, Fianna Fáil TD, Minister of State and MEP (born 1921).
  • 23 September - Ivar Ivask, Estonian poet and literary scholar (born 1927).

    • Full date unknown

  • Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh, peer and Seanad member (born 1937).
  • Aidan MacCarthy, doctor, RAF medical officer, captured by the Japanese during the Second World War (born 1914).
  • Matt O'Mahoney, international soccer player (born 1913).
  • Peter Rice, structural engineer (born 1935).
  • Jim Young, Cork hurler (born 1915).

    • References

    1992 in Ireland Wikipedia
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