1998 in Northern Ireland

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Events

9 January - British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam, visits loyalist prisoners in the Maze prison. Afterward loyalists agree to attend the Stormont talks.
20 February - Sinn Féin is excluded from the Northern Ireland talks for two weeks. Protests in Belfast follow.
10 April - Good Friday: the British and Irish governments and all the political parties in the Northern Ireland (except the Democratic Unionist Party) sign the Belfast Agreement.
19 May - John Hume and David Trimble join U2 on stage in Belfast as they make a direct appeal to young voters in Northern Ireland to vote 'yes' in the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement.
22 May - The Belfast Agreement is endorsed in a referendum by people north and south of the border.
25 June - The people of Northern Ireland go to the polls to elect a new Assembly.
June - Crumlin Road Courthouse is closed and the site is eventually sold to a private developer.
12 July- Three young children are killed in a loyalist arson attack in Ballymoney.
15 August - 29 people die in a bomb explosion near the centre of Omagh, County Tyrone, caused by the Real IRA.
3 September - U.S. President Bill Clinton of the United States visits Omagh and views the bomb damage.
16 October - John Hume and David Trimble are announced as the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
10 December - John Hume and David Trimble are presented with the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway.

Malachi O'Doherty's study The Trouble With Guns: Republican Strategy and the Provisional IRA is published.

Winners: Cliftonville

Winners: Glentoran 1 - 0 Glenavon (after extra time).