1991 in Northern Ireland

← 1990 1989 1988 1991 in Northern Ireland → 1992 1993 1994
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
See also:	1991 in the United Kingdom 1991 in Ireland Other events of 1991 List of years in Northern Ireland

Events

• 3 June - The British Army kill three Provisional Irish Republican Army members in Coagh.
• 2 November - An IRA bomb explodes in Musgrave Park Hospital killing two British Army soldiers and injuring 11 other people.^[1]

Arts and literature

• Brian Keenan publishes An Evil Cradling, an autobiographical account of more than four years as a hostage in Beirut.
• Michael Longley's collection Gorse Fires is published; it will win the Whitbread Poetry Award.

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Portadown

• Irish Cup

Winners: Portadown 2 - 1 Glenavon

Motorcycling

• Robert Dunlop wins the 125cc race at the Cookstown 100, and the 125cc and Junior TT races at the Isle of Man TT.

Deaths

• 17 October - J. G. Devlin, actor (born 1907).
• 13 November - Francis Blackwood, 10th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (born 1916).
• November - George Otto Simms, Archbishop of Armagh.

Full date unknown

• Professor John Dundee, leading anaesthetist (born 1921).

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