1991 in Northern Ireland explained

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.^[1]
• 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).

See also

• 1991 in England
• 1991 in Scotland
• 1991 in Wales

Notes and References

1. Web site: Musgrave Park Hospital (Bombing). House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Hansard. 1991-11-04. 2012-07-30. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120206013146/http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.com/pa/cm199192/cmhansrd/1991-11-04/Debate-1.html. 2012-02-06.