1993 in Northern Ireland

Events

* 24 June - Northern Ireland Minister Michael Mates resigns over links with tycoon Asil Nadir. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/24/newsid_2519000/2519201.stm Minister resigns over business links BBC On This Day] ]
*23 October - Shankill Road bombing carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Belfast. There were 10 fatalities, including the bomber.
*30 October - Greysteel massacre carried out by Ulster Freedom Fighters, at the Rising Sun Bar in Greysteel. Eight civilians were shot dead.
*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.

port

Football

*Irish League::Winners: Linfield

*Irish Cup::Winners: Bangor 1 - 1, 1 - 1, 1 - 0 Ards (all matches after extra time)

Motorcycling

*Robert Dunlop wins 125cc race at the Cookstown 100.

Births

Deaths

*23 March - Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon (b.1911).
*14 September - Sheelagh Murnaghan, only Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament at Stormont (b.1924).
*23 October - Thomas Begley, Provisional Irish Republican Army member killed planting a bomb (b.1970).
*November - Jimmy McAlinden, footballer and football manager (b.1917).
*9 December - Danny Blanchflower, footballer and football manager (b.1926).

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