1992 in Ireland

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See also:	1992 in Northern Ireland Other events of 1992 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1992 in Ireland.

Incumbents[]

• President: Mary Robinson
• Taoiseach:
  • Charles Haughey (FF) (until 11 February 1992)
  • Albert Reynolds (FF) (from 11 February 1992)
• Tánaiste: John Wilson (FF)
• Minister for Finance: Bertie Ahern (FF)
• Chief Justice: Thomas Finlay
• Dáil:
  • 26th (until 5 November 1992)
  • 27th (from 14 December 1992)
• Seanad: 19th (until 17 December 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.
• 8 May - the third People In Need Telethon is held.
• 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 they're 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]
• Trustee Savings Bank drops the name.

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 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 – , actor, dancer and model
• 27 January – Sam Barry, tennis player
• 11 February – , footballer
• 26 April – Shane O'Meara, actor
• 7 May – Robbie Benson, footballer
• 10 May – Sophie Vavasseur, actress
• 20 May – Jack Gleeson, actor
• 22 July – George Dockrell, cricketer
• 27 July – Neil R. Barrett, rugby player
• 9 September – Damian McGinty, singer and actor
• 27 September – Ryan O'Shaughnessy, pop singer
• 18 October – Barry Keoghan, actor
• 14 November – Tadhg Furlong, rugby union player
• 24 November
  • Aaron Barry, footballer
  • Oliver Dingley, diver
• 25 November – Declan Hannon, hurler (Adare, Limerick)
• 26 November – Paul Dunne, golfer
• 2 December – Danielle Galligan, actress
• 4 December – Emma Eliza Regan, actress

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 – , 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[]

• 1992 in Irish television

References[]