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1992 in Northern Ireland
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Arts and literature
Sport
Football
GAA
Golf
Births
Deaths
See also
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List of years in Northern Ireland
Events during the year
1992 in
Northern Ireland
.
Incumbents
Secretary of State
-
Peter Brooke
(until 10 April),
Patrick Mayhew
(from 10 April)
Events
20 January -
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 a
Provisional Irish Republican Army
bomb explodes.
4 February
Mary Robinson
becomes the first
President of Ireland
to visit
Belfast
.
An off-duty
Royal Ulster Constabulary
officer in Belfast
kills three people
in a
Sinn Féin
office before committing suicide.
5 February -
Ulster loyalist
gunmen kill five Catholics in an attack on a bookmaker's shop in Belfast.
9 April -
United Kingdom general election
. The
UK Conservative Party
stands candidates in the province for the first time since the
Ulster Unionist Party
broke with them in
1972
but does not win any seats.
1 July - The
Ulster Defence Regiment
is amalgamated with the
Royal Irish Rangers
to form the
Royal Irish Regiment
of the British Army.
[
1
]
10 August - The
Ulster Defence Association
is proscribed by the
Government of the United Kingdom
.
[
1
]
23 September - The IRA destroys Belfast's forensic science laboratory with a huge bomb.
Arts and literature
Alternative rock band
Ash
is formed in
Downpatrick
.
The
Hole in the Wall Gang
win a UK
Sony Award
for Best Radio Comedy for their first radio series
A Perforated Ulster
.
David Park
's novel
The Healing
is published.
[
2
]
Glenn Patterson
's novel
Fat Lad
is published.
Martin Waddell
's children's book
Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?
, the first in his
Big Bear, Little Bear
series, is published.
[
3
]
Sport
Football
Irish League
Winners:
Glentoran
Irish Cup
Winners:
Glenavon
2 - 1
Linfield
GAA
Donegal
defeat
Derry
0-14 to 1-09 to win the
Ulster Senior Football Championship
.
Donegal subsequently defeat
Dublin
0-18 to 0-14 to win the
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
for the first time.
Golf
New Strand course at
Portstewart Golf Club
, designed by Des Giffin, opened for play. The Irish Amateur Close Championship was played there.
Births
1 January -
Shane Duffy
, footballer.
30 May -
Thomas McBride
, footballer.
1 June -
Dean Jarvis
, footballer.
4 July -
Jamie Douglas
, footballer.
12 July -
Eoghan Quigg
, pop singer
9 September –
Damian McGinty
, actor and singer
17 September -
William Buller
, driver.
Deaths
20 March -
Michael McLaverty
, novelist (born
1904
).
16 April -
Stanley McMaster
, barrister and Unionist
Member of Parliament
from 1959 to 1974 (born
1926
).
13 May -
F. E. McWilliam
, sculptor (born
1909
).
25 November -
Pearse Jordan
,
Provisional Irish Republican Army
volunteer
killed by
RUC
(born
1969
).
See also
1992 in England
1992 in Scotland
1992 in Wales
References
1
2
Edwards, Aaron (2011).
The Northern Ireland Troubles: Operation Banner 1969-2007
. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
ISBN
978-1-84908-525-0
.
↑
Sansom, Ian (21 April 2012). "David Park".
The Guardian
Review
. London. pp.
12–
13.
↑
"Martin Waddell biography"
.
Fantasy Book Review
. Retrieved
2012-07-26
.
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