1982 in Northern Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 3.2 Motorcycling 3.3 Rugby Union 3.4 Snooker 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 6 References

[edit] Events

• 19 February - The DeLorean Car factory in Belfast is put into receivership.
• 6 April - James Prior launches 'rolling devolution' for Northern Ireland.
• 10 May - Seamus Mallon of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) is appointed to Seanad Éireann.
• 20 October - Polling takes place in the Assembly elections in Northern Ireland.
• 21 October - Sinn Féin win first seats on Northern Ireland Assembly, with Gerry Adams winning the Belfast West seat. ^[1]
• 27 October - Three RUC officers are killed by an IRA bomb near Lurgan. ^[2]
• 6 December - The Irish National Liberation Army kills 17 people in a bomb attack at the Droppin Well Inn, Ballykelly, County Londonderry. (See: Droppin Well bombing).

[edit] Arts and literature

• Graham Reid's play The Hidden Curriculum is produced.
• Anne Devlin wins the Hennessy Literary Award for her short story, Passages, which was adapted for television as A Woman Calling.^[3]

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• Football World Cup

• Group stage

• Northern Ireland 0-0 Yugoslavia

• Northern Ireland 1-1 Honduras

• Northern Ireland 1-0 Spain

Northern Ireland qualify for the quarterfinals of the World Cup

• Second group stage

• Northern Ireland 2-2 Austria

• Northern Ireland 1-0 France

Northern Ireland are knocked out at the quarter final stage of the World Cup

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Linfield 2 - 1 Coleraine

[edit] Motorcycling

• Joey Dunlop wins the Formula One motorcycle world championship for the first time.

[edit] Rugby Union

• The Ireland rugby team wins the Triple Crown for the first time since 1949 by beating Scotland 21-12 on 21 February, having already beaten Wales and England.

[edit] Snooker

• Alex Higgins wins the World Professional Snooker Championship for the second time.

[edit] Births

• 27 January - Brian Close, footballer.
• 25 February - Chris Baird, footballer.
• 1 July - Kiera Chaplin, actress and model, granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin.
• 10 July - Mark Morrison, ice hockey player.
• 5 October - Rónán Clarke, Gaelic footballer.

[edit] Full date unknown

• Jamie Dornan, model, musician and actor.
• Daithí McKay, Sinn Féin MLA.
• Máire Nic an Bhaird, teacher and Irish language activist.

[edit] Deaths

• 5 February - George Crothers, cricketer (b.1909).
• 26 March - Sam Kydd, actor (b.1915).
• 14 August - Patrick Magee, actor (b.1922).
• 16 November - Lenny Murphy, loyalist paramilitary and leader of the Shankill Butchers (b.1952).

[edit] References