Events during the year 1993 in Northern Ireland.
Incumbents Secretary of State – Patrick Mayhew
Events 24 June – Northern Ireland Minister Michael Mates resigns over links with tycoon Asil Nadir. 23 October – Shankill Road bombing carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Belfast. There are 10 fatalities, including the bomber. 30 October – Greysteel massacre carried out by Ulster Freedom Fighters, at the Rising Sun Bar in Greysteel. Eight civilians are shot dead. 9 December – Footballer Danny Blanchflower dies of Alzheimer's disease aged 67. 15 December – Albert Reynolds and John Major issue their joint Downing Street Declaration.
Arts and literature Ciarán Carson's First Language: Poems collection is published and wins the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Sport
Football Irish League Winners: Linfield Irish Cup Winners: Bangor 1 – 1, 1 – 1, 1 – 0 Ards (all matches after extra time)
Motorcycling Cookstown 100 125cc race Winner: Robert Dunlop
Mountaineering 27 May – Belfast architect Dawson Stelfox becomes one of the first Irish people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Births 24 November – Saoirse-Monica Jackson, actress
Deaths 23 March – Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon (born 1911). 14 September – Sheelagh Murnaghan, only Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament at Stormont (born 1924). 23 October – Thomas Begley, Provisional Irish Republican Army member killed planting a bomb (born 1970). 15 November – Jimmy McAlinden, footballer and football manager (born 1917). 9 December – Danny Blanchflower, footballer and football manager (born 1926).
See also 1993 in England 1993 in Scotland 1993 in Wales
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