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Events

• January 11 - John Hume and Gerry Adams have a surprise meeting in Belfast.
• January 15 - Former Nobel Prize-winner Seán MacBride dies aged 83.
• March 6 - The SAS kills three unarmed members of the IRA in Gibraltar.
• March 7 - It is agreed that a millennium fountain called the Anna Livia Fountain is to be built on O'Connell Street.
• March 16 - Three men are killed and 70 are wounded in a gun and grenade attack on mourners in Milltown Cemetery during the funerals of three IRA members.
• March 19 - 5,000 people turn out for an anti-apartheid rally at the GPO in Dublin.
• March 22 - Tributes are paid to Aran Islands poet Máirtín Ó Direáin at his funeral in Dublin.
• April 16 - The Irish National Lottery launches its national live draw.
• June 15 - The IRA kills six British soldiers in a bomb attack in Lisburn.
• July 10 - Dublin celebrates its official 1,000th birthday.
• July 18 - Nelson Mandela, the jailed anti-apartheid leader, is awarded the freedom of Dublin City.
• August 11 - The Department of Health launches an information booklet as the number of AIDS cases increases dramatically.
• August 28 - Leopardstown Racecourse celebrates its 100th birthday.
• September 12 - Archbishop Thomas Morris resigns as Archbishop of Cashel
• September 12 - Dermot Clifford appointed Archbishop of Cashel
• October 8 - A tax amnesty brings in over £500 million.
• October 17 - The IRTC is established to regulate radio and television services outside the RTÉ umbrella.
• November 16 - Minister for Finance Ray MacSharry is appointed Ireland's new EC Commissioner.

Arts and literature

Ireland hosts the Eurovision Song Contest

Sport

Cycling

• 13 March - Seán Kelly wins the Paris-Nice cycle race for the seventh year in a row.
• 15 May - Seán Kelly wins the tour of Spain cycle race.

Gaelic football

• Meath GAA beat Cork GAA 0-13 to 0-9 in Croke Park to win a second consecutive All-Ireland Senior Football Championship title.

Hurling

• Galway GAA beat Tipperary GAA 1-15 to 0-14 in Croke Park to win a second consecutive All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship title.

Soccer

• The Republic of Ireland plays in the European Championship finals for the first time.
• 12 June - The Republic of Ireland celebrates a win over England 1-0 at Euro 88.

Golf

• Carroll's Irish Open is won by Ian Woosnam (Wales).
• 16 October - Ireland (Eamonn Darcy, Ronan Rafferty, Des Smyth) wins the Dunhill Cup at St Andrew's.

Births

• 15 January - Padraig Amond, soccer player.
• 23 January - Alan Power, soccer player.
• 29 January - Owen Garvan, soccer player.
• 21 February - Darren Forsyth, soccer player.
• 22 February - Robert Bayly, soccer player.
• 4 March - Timmy Purcell, soccer player.
• 2 May - Stephen Henderson, soccer player.
• 21 May - Adam Rooney, soccer player.
• 25 July - Anthony Stokes, soccer player.
• 14 September - Shane Tracy, soccer player.
• 22 September - Keith Quinn, soccer player.

Full date unknown

• Séamus Hickey, Limerick hurler.

Deaths

January to June

• 1 January - Sister Philippa Brazill, nurse in Australia (b.1896).
• 1 January - Dan Spring, Gaelic footballer, trade unionist and Irish Labour Party TD (b.1910).
• 15 January - Seán MacBride, former Clann na Poblachta TD, Cabinet Minister and Nobel Peace Prize Winner (b.1904).
• 2 February - Frederick Blaney, cricketer (b.1918).
• 6 February - Paschal (PV) Doyle, hotelier and builder, founder Doyle Hotel Group.
• 24 February - Tommy O'Brien, journalist and broadcaster.
• 10 May - Ciaran Bourke, musician, one of the original members of the The Dubliners (b.1936).

July to December

• 17 July - Frank Carter, Fianna Fáil TD,Seanad member.
• 10 October - Sonny Hool, cricketer (b.1924).
• 27 October - Frank Devlin, badminton player (b.1900).
• 12 December - Seán Dowling, revolutionary and playwright.
• 7 December - Peter Langan, restaurateur.
• 8 December - John Joe McGirl, chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (b.1921).
• 21 December - Eithne Dunne, actress.
• 22 December - Jack Bowden, cricketer and hockey player (b.1916).

Full date unknown

• Tommy Breen, international soccer player (b.1912).
• Robert Dudley Edwards, historian (b.1909).
• E. Chambré Hardman, photographer (b.1898).
• Terry Leahy, Kilkenny hurler (b.1918).
• Máirtín Ó Direáin, poet (b.1910).
• Nick O'Donnell, Kilkenny and Wexford hurler (b.1925).
• Tommy Potts, fiddle player (b.1912).
• Ed Reavy, fiddle player and songwriter (b.1897).