1993 in Ireland

Events from the year 1993 in Ireland.

Incumbents

 * President: Mary Robinson
 * Taoiseach: Albert Reynolds (FF)
 * Tánaiste:
 * John Wilson (FF) (until 12 January 1993)
 * Dick Spring (Lab) (from 12 January 1993)
 * Minister for Finance: Bertie Ahern (FF)
 * Chief Justice: Thomas Finlay
 * Dáil: 27th
 * Seanad: 20th (from 17 February 1993)

Events

 * 8–17 January – The Braer Storm blew in the North Atlantic.
 * 12 January – Albert Reynolds was elected Taoiseach in Dáil Éireann. A Fianna Fáil–Labour Party coalition government came to power.
 * 10 March – The Gaelic Athletic Association received planning permission for the redevelopment of the Croke Park stadium.
 * 25 March – Castlerock killings: four Catholics were shot dead by the Ulster Defence Association as they arrived for work in Castlerock, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
 * 27 May – The first meeting of an Irish head of state with a British monarch took place when President Mary Robinson makes a private visit to Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
 * 1 June – Mother Teresa met President Mary Robinson at Áras an Uachtaráin.
 * 24 June – Dáil Éireann passed the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act, decriminalising consensual homosexual acts.
 * 15 July – The Beef Tribunal ended after 226 days.
 * September – The sale of land beside a Dublin convent and the consequent exhumation of at least 133 former residents of a Magdalene asylum from unmarked graves brought the existence of these institutions to wide public attention.
 * 16 September – A new green coloured £10 note was issued depicting the writer James Joyce.
 * 23 October – Shankill Road bombing – Ten people were killed when a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb exploded at a fish shop on the Shankill Road in Belfast.
 * 30 October – Greysteel massacre – The Ulster Defence Association shot 21 people in the Rising Sun Bar in Greysteel, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, during a Hallowe'en party. They chose the pub as it was in a Catholic area.
 * 12 November – The issue of a new, smaller 10 pence coin meant there was no longer a coin equivalent in size to a florin after 22 years.
 * December – Brú na Bóinne became the first UNESCO World Heritage Site designated in Ireland.
 * 15 December – Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and British Prime Minister John Major issued a joint Downing Street Declaration on the future of Northern Ireland.
 * 25 December – Elizabeth II spoke of her hopes for peace in Northern Ireland in her Christmas Day speech to the U.K.
 * 29 December – The IRA announced it would fight on against the British presence in Northern Ireland.

Arts and literature

 * 15 May – Niamh Kavanagh won the Eurovision Song Contest (staged at the Green Glens Arena in Millstreet, County Cork) for Ireland with In Your Eyes, the second of three consecutive Irish wins.
 * 6 August – The television film The Snapper was released.
 * 26–7 August – The band U2 played two concerts at the RDS Showgrounds.
 * 11 November – The final Jacob's Broadcasting Awards ceremony took place in Dublin.
 * 16 December – The world première of the film In the Name of the Father was held at the Savoy Cinema in Dublin.
 * Roddy Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
 * John Banville's novel Ghosts was published.
 * The Irish Film Board was re-established as a funding body under the chairmanship of Lelia Doolan.

Domestic football

 * Shelbourne defeated Dundalk 1–0 at Lansdowne Road to win the FAI Cup.

International football

 * Alan McLoughlin scored as Ireland drew 1–1 with Northern Ireland to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the USA.
 * Ireland also went 6th in the world to reach their highest FIFA ranking to date.

Athletics

 * Runner Marcus O'Sullivan won the world indoor 1,500-metre championship for the third time, in Toronto.

Gaelic football

 * Derry beat Cork 1–14 to 2–8 to win the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship for the first time.

Golf

 * The Irish Open was won by Nick Faldo (England).

Hurling

 * Kilkenny beat Galway 2–17 to 1–15 to win their second consecutive All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship.

Mountaineering

 * Pat Falvey and Dawson Stelfox became the first Irish people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Births

 * 6 January – Al Porter, entertainer
 * 21 February – Shane Dowling, hurler (Na Piarsaigh, Limerick).
 * 20 April – Dan Morrissey, hurler (Ahane, Limerick)
 * 25 April – Josh van der Flier, Rugby player
 * 6 June – Aisling Franciosi, screen actress
 * 27 June – Rejjie Snow, born Alex Anyaegbunam, hip hop musician
 * 7 July – Ciarán Kilkenny, Gaelic footballer
 * 5 August – Patrick McBrearty, Donegal Gaelic football superstar
 * 13 September – Niall Horan, member of boy band One Direction

Deaths

 * 5 February – Seán Flanagan, Gaelic footballer, captain of winning Mayo All Ireland football teams in 1950s, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP (born 1922).
 * 11 February – Brian Inglis, journalist, historian and television presenter (born 1916).
 * 15 February – Peter Kavanagh, soccer player (born 1910).
 * 23 March – Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon (born 1911).
 * April – Denis Hegarty, public servant.
 * 5 May – Dermot Boyle, Marshal of the Royal Air Force (born 1904).
 * 29 June – Patrick Lindsay, Fine Gael TD and lawyer (born 1914).
 * 28 July – Stanley Woods, motor cycle racer, with 29 Grand Prix wins and 10 Isle of Man TT wins (born 1903).
 * 14 September – Sheelagh Murnaghan, only Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament at Stormont (born 1924).
 * 7 October – Cyril Cusack, actor (born 1910).
 * 1 November – Maeve Brennan, short story writer and journalist (born 1917).
 * 15 November – Jimmy McAlinden, soccer player and manager (born 1917).
 * 28 November – Joe Kelly, motor racing driver (born 1913).
 * 29 December – Marie Kean, actress (born 1918).