1992 in Northern Ireland

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See also:	1992 in the United Kingdom 1992 in Ireland Other events of 1992 List of years in Northern Ireland

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 a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes.
• February 4
  • Mary Robinson becomes the first President of Ireland to visit Belfast.
  • An off-duty Royal Ulster Constabulary officer in Belfast kills three people in a Sinn Féin office before committing suicide.
• February 5 - Ulster loyalist gunmen kill five Catholics in an attack on a bookmaker's shop in Belfast.
• April 9 - United Kingdom general election. The UK Conservative Party stands candidates in the province for the first time since the Ulster Unionist Party broke with them in 1972 but does not win any seats.
• July 1 - The Ulster Defence Regiment is amalgamated with the Royal Irish Rangers to form the Royal Irish Regiment of the British Army.^[1]
• August 10 - The Ulster Defence Association is proscribed by the Government of the United Kingdom.^[1]
• September 23 - The IRA destroys Belfast's forensic science laboratory with a huge bomb.

Arts and literature

• Alternative rock band Ash is formed in Downpatrick.
• The Hole in the Wall Gang win a UK Sony Award for Best Radio Comedy for their first radio series A Perforated Ulster.
• David Park's novel The Healing is published.^[2]
• Glenn Patterson's novel Fat Lad is published.
• Martin Waddell's children's book Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?, the first in his Big Bear, Little Bear series, is published.^[3]

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Glentoran

• Irish Cup

Winners: Glenavon 2 - 1 Linfield

GAA

• Donegal defeat Derry 0-14 to 1-09 to win the Ulster Senior Football Championship.
• Donegal subsequently defeat Dublin 0-18 to 0-14 to win the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship for the first time.

Golf

• New Strand course at Portstewart Golf Club, designed by Des Giffin, opened for play. The Irish Amateur Championship was played there.

Births

• 1 January - Shane Duffy, footballer.
• 30 May - Thomas McBride, footballer.
• 1 June - Dean Jarvis, footballer.
• 4 July - Jamie Douglas, footballer.
• 9 September – Damian McGinty, actor and singer
• 17 September - William Buller, driver.

Deaths

• 20 March - Michael MacLaverty, novelist (born 1904).
• 16 April - Stanley McMaster, barrister and Unionist Member of Parliament from 1959 to 1974 (born 1926).
• 13 May - F. E. McWilliam, sculptor (born 1909).
• 25 November - Pearse Jordan, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer killed by RUC (born 1969).

References

1. Edwards, Aaron (2011). The Northern Ireland Troubles: Operation Banner 1969-2007. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84908-525-0.
2. Sansom, Ian (21 April 2012). "David Park". The Guardian Review (London). pp. 12–13.
3. "Martin Waddell biography". Fantasy Book Review. Retrieved 2012-07-26.