1992 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1992 in Ireland.
Contents
Incumbents
- President: Mary Robinson (Labour)
- Taoiseach: Charles Haughey (Fianna Fáil) (until 11 February), Albert Reynolds (Fianna Fáil) (starting 11 February)
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.[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
- 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).
