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1993 in Northern Ireland

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Centuries:
  
20th 21st

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

Incumbents

  • Monarch - Elizabeth II
  • 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.
  • Football

  • Irish League
  • Irish Cup
  • Motorcycling

  • Cookstown 100 125cc race
  • Mountaineering

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

    1993 in Northern Ireland Wikipedia