1992 in Ireland
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See also: 1991 in Ireland, other events of 1992, 1993 in Ireland and the list of years in Ireland.
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[edit] 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. On the same day 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 - An 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 in 1992. 290,000 people are out of work.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Sports
- April 5 - Shelbourne win their first League of Ireland Championship for thirty years.
- 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.
[edit] Births
- Sophie Vavasseur, actress.
[edit] 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).
- 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).
- Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh, peer and Seanad member (b.1937).
