1993 in Northern Ireland
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Events during the year 1993 in Northern Ireland.
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Incumbents
Events
- 24 June – Northern Ireland Minister Michael Mates resigns over links with tycoon Asil Nadir.[1]
- 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.
Sport
Football
- Winners: Linfield
Motorcycling
- Cookstown 100 125cc race
- Winner: Robert Dunlop
Mountaineering
- 27 May – Belfast architect Dawson Stelfox becomes one of the first Irish people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.[2]
Births
- 24 November – Saoirse-Monica Jackson, actress
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).