Events during the year 1988 in Northern Ireland.
Incumbents Secretary of State - Tom King
Events 11 January - SDLP leader, John Hume and Gerry Adams of Sinn Féin, have a surprise meeting in Belfast.BBC News Road to Peace Timeline. 6 March - Operation Flavius: A Special Air Service team of the British Army shoots dead a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) Active Service Unit (Danny McCann, Seán Savage and Mairéad Farrell, unarmed at the time) in Gibraltar. 16 March - Milltown Cemetery attack: Three men are killed and 70 are wounded in a gun and grenade attack by loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone on mourners at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast during the funerals of the three IRA members killed in Gibraltar. 19 March - Corporals killings in Belfast: British Army corporals Woods and Howes are abducted, beaten and shot dead by Irish republicans after driving into the funeral cortege of IRA members killed in the Milltown Cemetery attack. 15 June - The IRA kills six British soldiers in a bomb attack in Lisburn. 20 August - Ballygawley bus bombing: Eight British soldiers are killed by an IRA bomb attack on their bus in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.. 12 October - As Pope John Paul II addresses the European Parliament, Ian Paisley heckles and denounces him as the Antichrist. 19 October - Broadcasting ban against Sinn Féin and other paramilitary linked groups begins. 11 November - Belfast Castle is reopened to the public following major renovation by Belfast City Council.
Arts and literature 3 October - Marie Jones' play Under Napoleon's Nose is premiered on a schools tour. Glenn Patterson's first novel, Burning Your Own, is published.
Sport
Football Irish League Winners: Glentoran
Irish Cup Winners: Glentoran 1 - 0 Glenavon
FAI Cup Winners: Dundalk 1 - 0 Derry City
Golf October 16 - In golf, Ireland (Eamonn Darcy, Ronan Rafferty, Des Smyth) wins the Dunhill Cup at St Andrew's.
Motorcycling Robert Dunlop wins the 125cc race at the Cookstown 100.
Births 3 January – Jonny Evans, footballer 12 January – Chris Casement, footballer 4 July – Conor MacNeill, actor 23 September – Mark Gallagher, footballer 2 November – Lisa Bowman, netball player
Deaths 2 February - Frederick Blaney, cricketer (born 1918). 6 March - Mairéad Farrell, volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, killed by SAS soldiers during Operation Flavius (born 1957). 6 March - Daniel McCann, volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, killed by SAS soldiers during Operation Flavius (born 1957). 6 March - Seán Savage, volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, killed by SAS soldiers during Operation Flavius (born 1965). 2 November - Stewart Parker, poet and playwright (born 1941). 22 December - Jack Bowden, cricketer and hockey player (born 1916). 24 December – Noel Willman, actor and theatre director (born 1941)
See also 1988 in England 1988 in Scotland 1988 in Wales
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