1993 in Northern Ireland explained

Events during the year 1993 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

24 June – Northern Ireland Minister Michael Mates resigns over links with tycoon Asil Nadir.^[1]
23 October – Shankill Road bombing carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Belfast. There are 10 fatalities, including the bomber.
30 October – Greysteel massacre carried out by Ulster Freedom Fighters, at the Rising Sun Bar in Greysteel. Eight civilians are shot dead.
9 December – Footballer Danny Blanchflower dies of Alzheimer's disease aged 67.
15 December – Albert Reynolds and John Major issue their joint Downing Street Declaration.

Ciarán Carson's First Language: Poems collection is published and wins the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Winners: Linfield

Winners: Bangor 1 – 1, 1 – 1, 1 – 0 Ards (all matches after extra time)

Winner: Robert Dunlop

27 May – Belfast architect Dawson Stelfox becomes one of the first Irish people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.^[2]

23 March – Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon (born 1911).
14 September – Sheelagh Murnaghan, only Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament at Stormont (born 1924).
23 October – Thomas Begley, Provisional Irish Republican Army member killed planting a bomb (born 1970).
15 November – Jimmy McAlinden, footballer and football manager (born 1917).
9 December – Danny Blanchflower, footballer and football manager (born 1926).