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

Events from the year1992 in Ireland.

• President:Mary Robinson
• Taoiseach:
  • Charles Haughey (FF) (until 11 February 1992)
  • Albert Reynolds (FF) (from 11 February 1992)
• Tánaiste:John Wilson (FF)
• Minister for Finance:Bertie Ahern (FF)
• Chief Justice:Thomas Finlay
• Dáil:
  • 26th (until 5 November 1992)
  • 27th (from 14 December 1992)
• Seanad:19th (until 17 December 1992)

• 20 January –Peter Brooke offered to resign asSecretary of State for Northern Ireland following criticism of his singing onThe Late Late Show only hours after anIrish Republican Army (IRA) bomb exploded.
• 30 January –Charles Haughey resigned asTaoiseach and as leader of theFianna Fáil party.
• 31 January – The Government sold theB+I Shipping Line to theIrish Continental Group.
• 4 February
  • Mary Robinson became the first President of Ireland to visitBelfast.
  • An off-dutyRoyal Ulster Constabulary officer in Belfast killed three people in aSinn Féin office before committing suicide.
• 5 February –Loyalist gunmen killed five Catholics in an attack on a bookmaker's shop in Belfast.
• 6 February –Albert Reynolds was elected the fifth leader ofFianna Fáil.
• 11 February – Charles Haughey resigned as Taoiseach and was succeeded by Albert Reynolds.
• 18 February – Albert Reynolds discussed the situation with other party leaders as the High Court prevented a 14-year-old rape victim from going to Britain for an abortion.
• 26 February –The Supreme Court lifted the High Court ruling preventing a girl from travelling to Britain for an abortion; it was duly performed.
• 15 March –Proinsias De Rossa led a breakaway group from theWorkers' Party to form what would shortly becomeDemocratic Left. The majority of the breakaway group including De Rossa joined theLabour Party in 1999.
• 13 April – Two hundred and fifty years after the first performance ofHandel'sMessiah inDublin, theAcademy of St. Martin in the Fields performed the oratorio at thePoint Theatre.
• 7 May – BishopEamon Casey of Galway resigned following the revelation that he was the father of a teenage boy.
• 8 May – The thirdPeople In Need Telethon was held.
• 9 May –Linda Martin won theEurovision Song Contest (staged in Sweden) for Ireland with "Why Me?". This was the first of three consecutive Irish wins.
• 31 May –Christy O'Connor Jnr won the British Masters golf tournament.
• 18 June – A referendum approved theMaastricht Treaty on European Union: 69.1% voted in favour; 30.9% against.
• 25 June – The issue of a new, smaller 5 pence coin meant that, after 21 years, it was no longer the same size as ashilling.
• 8 July – PresidentMary Robinson addressed both houses of theOireachtas.
• 23 September – The IRA destroyed the forensic science laboratory in Belfast with a huge bomb.
• 3 October – Irish singer-songwriterSinéad O'Connor onSaturday Night Live on U.S. television performed a song protesting againstCatholic Church child sexual abuse and ripped up a photograph ofPope John Paul II, causing huge controversy.
• 5 November – The Government lost a confidence motion and the Dáil was dissolved. Two former Taoisigh,Charles Haughey andGarret FitzGerald, announced their retirement from politics.
• 6 November – A new purple £20 note depictingDaniel O'Connell was issued.
• 25 November – Three referendums were held on abortion-related issues. The right to abortion-related travel and the right to abortion-related information were supported.
• November – An appearance byChristine Buckley onThe Gay Byrne Show onRTÉ Radio 1 brought an "overwhelming response" from others who felt they had been victims of incarceration and abuse inindustrial schools.^[1]
• 31 December – Unemployment reached record levels: 290,000 people were out of work.
• Undated –Trustee Savings Bank dropped the previous Cork and Limerick Savings Bank name.

• April –Patrick McCabe's novelThe Butcher Boy was published.
• 11 September –Colm Tóibín's novelThe Heather Blazing was published.
• 23 September – TheIrish Film Institute opened the Irish Film Centre in Dublin.^[2]
• 30 September –Vincent Woods' playAt the Black Pig's Dyke opened at theDruid Theatre Company.
• 30 October –Neil Jordan's filmThe Crying Game was released in Ireland and the U.K.
• Samuel Beckett's first novel,Dream of Fair to Middling Women, was finally published.
• Maeve Binchy's novelThe Copper Beech was published.
• Eugene McCabe's novelDeath and Nightingales was published.

• 5 April –Shelbourne won their firstLeague of Ireland Championship for thirty years.

• Donegal beatDublin by 0–18 to 0–14 in the1992 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final to win their first All-Ireland SFC title.

• Carroll's Irish Open was won byNick Faldo (England).

• Kilkenny beatCork by 3–10 to 1–12 in the1992 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final.

• 8 August –Michael Carruth won Ireland's first gold medal in 36 years at theOlympic Games inBarcelona.Wayne McCullough won a silver medal.

• 13 January –Ryan Connolly, footballer
• 16 January –Matt Doherty, footballer
• 23 January –Jack Reynor, actor
• 27 January –Sam Barry, tennis player
• 26 April –Shane O'Meara, actor
• 10 May –Sophie Vavasseur, actress
• 20 May –Jack Gleeson, actor
• 22 July –George Dockrell, cricketer
• 27 July –Neil R. Barrett, rugby player
• 9 September –Damian McGinty, singer and actor
• 27 September –Ryan O'Shaughnessy, pop singer
• 18 October –Barry Keoghan, actor
• 20 October –John Egan, footballer
• 14 November –Tadhg Furlong, rugby union player
• 24 November
  • Aaron Barry, footballer
  • Oliver Dingley, diver
• 25 November –Declan Hannon, hurler (Adare,Limerick)
• 26 November –Paul Dunne, golfer
• 2 December –Danielle Galligan, actress
• 4 December –Emma Eliza Regan, actress

• 9 January –Bill Naughton, playwright and author (born 1910).
• 20 March –Michael McLaverty, novelist (born 1904).
• 28 April –Francis Bacon, painter (born 1909).
• 12 May –Joseph Raftery, archaeologist.
• 13 May –F. E. McWilliam, sculptor (born 1909).
• 20 May –James Tully, formerLabour PartyTD and Cabinet Minister (born 1915).
• 3 June –Patrick Peyton, the Rosary Priest (born 1909).
• 6 July –Bryan Guinness, 2nd Lord Moyne, lawyer and poet.
• 21 July –Aloys Fleischmann, composer and musicologist (born 1910).
• 17 August –Tom Nolan,Fianna FáilTD, Minister of State andMEP (born 1921).
• 23 September –Ivar Ivask,Estonian poet and literary scholar (born 1927).

• Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh, peer andSeanad member (born 1937).
• Aidan MacCarthy, doctor,RAF medical officer, captured by theJapanese during theSecond World War (born 1914).
• Matt O'Mahoney, international soccer player (born 1913).
• Peter Rice, structural engineer (born 1935).
• Jim Young,Cork hurler (born 1915).

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