1992 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1992 in Ireland.
Incumbents
- President: Mary Robinson
- Taoiseach:
- Charles Haughey (FF) (until 11 February 1992)
- Albert Reynolds (FF) (starting 11 February 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 oratorio 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.
- 25 June – new smaller 5p coin means there no longer the same size as a Shilling after 21 years.
- 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.
- 6 November – new Violet or Purple £20 note with Daniel O'Connell.
- 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.[1]
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.[2]
- 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.
Sport
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.
- 23 January – Jack Reynor, actor.
- 25 January – Dean McCarthy, actor, dancer and model.
- 27 January – Sam Barry, tennis player.
- 11 February – Aidan Bissett, footballer.
- 7 May – Robbie Benson, footballer.
- 10 May – Sophie Vavasseur, actress.
- 22 July – George Dockrell, cricketer.
- 27 July – Neil R. Barrett, rugby player.
- 24 September - Sandra McDermott, Johnson & Johnson employee, a true friend.
- 27 September – Ryan O'Shaughnessy, pop singer.
- 14 November – Tadhg Furlong, rugby union player.
- 24 November – Aaron Barry, footballer.
- 25 November – Declan Hannon, hurler (Adare, Limerick)
Full date unknown
- Aisling Dunphy, camogie player.
Deaths
- 9 January – Bill Naughton, playwright and author (born 1910).
- 20 March – Michael McLaverty, 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).
See also
References
- ^ Buckley, Christine (19 May 2009). "A long journey in search of justice for victims of abuse". The Irish Times. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
- ^ "History". Irish Film Institute. Retrieved 30 July 2012.