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Events

• January 2 - Dundalk, County Louth celebrates its 1200 year heritage.
• February 12 - Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane is shot dead by loyalists,
• March 21 - Three Irish soldiers on United Nations duty are killed in a landmine explosion in southern Lebanon.
• April 3 - Belfast-born Alex Higgins beats Stephen Hendry to win the British Benson and Hedges snooker championship.
• April 4 - The Windmill Lane Consortium says that if it gets the franchise it will be on the air within 9 to 12 months with its station TV3.
• June 16 - Ray McAnally, one of the country's most versatile actors, dies suddenly.
• June 22 - an order is signed creating the University of Limerick, the first university founded since the foundation of the state, later in the day Dublin City University is created
• June 29 - Charles Haughey resigns as Taoiseach. He remains on in a caretaker capacity.
• August 19 - 10,000 people march from Dublin city centre to the British Embassy calling for British withdrawal from Northern Ireland.
• September 4 - Century Radio goes on the air for the first time.
• October 19 - Three of the Guildford Four are released in London. Paul Hill is immediately re-arrested.
• December 21 - Aer Rianta's 5,000,000th passenger is presented with a holiday to Florida.

Arts and literature

Sport

Golf

• Carroll's Irish Open is won by Ian Woosnam (Wales).

Gaelic football

• The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final ends on a scoreline of Cork GAA 0–17 Mayo GAA 1–11

Hurling

• The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final ends on a scoreline of Tipperary GAA 4-24 Antrim GAA 3-9.

Soccer

• 11 October - The Republic of Ireland beat Northern Ireland 3–0 in a World Cup Qualifier at Lansdowne Road.
• 15 November - The Republic of Ireland win 2-0 in Malta to secure qualification for the World Cup for the first time.

Births

• 8 January - Ian Bermingham, soccer player.
• 12 February - Cian Byrne, soccer player.
• 24 February - Noel Haverty, soccer player.
• 3 March - Barry O'Rorke, Gaelic footballer and hurler.
• 9 June - Chloë Agnew, singer.
• 2 July - Omero Mumba, actor.
• 5 August - Eoin Bishop, comedian and Leinster rugby player.

Deaths

• 24 January - Michael Scott, architect (b.1905).
• January - Jackie Wright, comedian (b.1905).
• 11 March - Simon Curley, cricketer (b.1917).
• 7 April - Frank Cluskey, former leader of the Labour Party (b.1930).
• 15 June - Ray McAnally, actor (b.1926).
• July - Eddie Gannon, soccer player (b.1921).
• 3 August - Dominic Behan, songwriter, novelist and playwright (b.1928).
• 10 August - H. Montgomery Hyde, barrister, author and Ulster Unionist MP (b.1907).
• 12 September - Seamus Twomey, twice chief of staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (b.1919).
• 4 November - Vivian Mercier, literary critic (b.1919).
• 14 December - Gerry Healy, British Trotskyist leader (b.1913).
• 22 December - Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize in Literature 1969, playwright, novelist and poet (b.1906).

Full date unknown

• Hugh Baker, cricketer (b.1906).
• Peadar Livingstone, priest and historian (b.1930).
• Dónall Mac Amhlaigh, writer (b.1926).
• John Mackey, Limerick hurler (b.1914).