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1991 in Northern Ireland

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Events during the year 1991 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

  • Secretary of State - Peter Brooke

Events

  • 3 June - The British Special Air Service kills three Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) members in the Coagh ambush.
  • 2 November - An IRA bomb explodes in Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast, killing two British Army soldiers and injuring 11 other people.
  • Roscoff Restaurant in Belfast becomes the first in Northern Ireland to be awarded a Michelin star.

Arts and literature

  • Brian Keenan publishes An Evil Cradling, an autobiographical account of more than four years as a hostage in Beirut.
  • Michael Longley's collection Gorse Fires is published; it will win the Whitbread Poetry Award.

Sport

Football

  • Irish League ::Winners: Portadown

  • Irish Cup ::Winners: Portadown 2 - 1 Glenavon

Motorcycling

  • Robert Dunlop wins the 125cc race at the Cookstown 100, and the 125cc and Junior TT races at the Isle of Man TT.

Deaths

  • 17 October - J. G. Devlin, actor (born 1907).
  • 13 November - Francis Blackwood, 10th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (born 1916).
  • November - George Otto Simms, Archbishop of Armagh.

Full date unknown

  • Professor John Dundee, leading anaesthetist (born 1921).

References

References

  1. (1991-11-04). "Musgrave Park Hospital (Bombing)". [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]].
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