1992 in Ireland

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Undated 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Gaelic football 3.2 Golf 3.3 Hurling 3.4 Olympics 3.5 Soccer 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown 6 References

Events

• January 20 - 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.
• January 30 - Charles Haughey resigns as Taoiseach and as leader of Fianna Fáil.
• February 4
  • 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.
• February 5 - Loyalist gunmen kill five Catholics in an attack on a bookmaker's shop in Belfast.
• February 6 - Albert Reynolds is elected the fifth leader of Fianna Fáil.
• February 11 - Charles Haughey resigns as Taoiseach. Albert Reynolds collects his seal of office as his successor.
• February 18 - 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.
• February 26 - The Supreme Court lift the High Court ruling preventing a 14-year-old girl from going to Britain for an abortion.
• March 15 - 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 Irish Labour Party.
• April 13 - 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.
• May 7 - Bishop Eamon Casey of Galway resigns following the revelation that he is the father of a teenage boy.
• May 9 - Linda Martin wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland.
• May 31 - Christy O'Connor Jnr wins the British Masters golf tournament.
• June 18 - A referendum in the Republic approves the Maastricht Treaty on European Union: 69.1% in favour; 30.9% against.
• July 8 - President Robinson addresses both houses of the Oireachtas.
• September 23 - The IRA destroys Belfast's forensic science laboratory with a huge bomb.
• November 5 - The government loses a confidence motion and the Dáil is dissolved. Two former Taoisigh, Charles Haughey and Garret FitzGerald, announce their retirement from politics.
• November 25 - Three referendums are held in the Republic on abortion-related issues: the right to travel and the right to (abortion-related) information is supported.
• December 31 - 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

• Vincent Woods' play At the Black Pig's Dyke is performed by the Druid Theatre Company.
• Samuel Beckett's first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, is finally published.
• Eugene McCabe's novel Death and Nightingales and Patrick McCabe's novel The Butcher Boy are 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

• August 8 - 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
• 11 February - Aidan Bissett, footballer.
• 7 May - Robbie Benson, footballer.
• 29 June - Brendan Cusack, foil fencer.
• 22 July - George Dockrell, cricketer.

Full date unknown

• Aisling Dunphy, camogie player and student.
• Sophie Vavasseur, actress.

Deaths

• 9 January - Bill Naughton, playwright and author (b.1910).
• 20 March - Michael MacLaverty, novelist (b.1904).
• 28 April - Francis Bacon, painter (b.1909).
• 12 May - Joseph Raftery, archaeologist.
• 13 May - F. E. McWilliam, sculptor (b.1909).
• 20 May - James Tully, former Labour Party TD and Cabinet Minister (b.1915).
• 3 June - Patrick Peyton, the Rosary Priest (b.1909).
• 6 July - Bryan Guinness, 2nd Lord Moyne, lawyer and poet.
• 21 July - Aloys Fleischmann, composer and musicologist (b.1910).
• 17 August - Tom Nolan, Fianna Fáil TD, Minister of State and MEP (b.1921).

Full date unknown

• Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh, peer and Seanad member (b.1937).
• Aiden MacCarthy, doctor, RAF medical officer, captured by the Japanese during the Second World War (b.1914).
• Matt O'Mahoney, international soccer player (b.1913).
• Peter Rice, structural engineer (b.1935).
• Jim Young, Cork hurler (b.1915).

References