1991 in Ireland

Events

*January 1 - Limerick City celebrates 300 years of the Treaty of Limerick.
*January 6 - The Irish Government and the EC Commission meet in Dublin to officially launch the Irish EC Presidency.
*January 17 - There controversy as the government allows US war planes to refuel at Shannon Airport.
*January 24 - The new Government Buildings in the renovated College of Science are officially opened.
*February 7 - The IRA fires mortar bombs at 10 Downing Street in London.
*March 14 - After being wrongfully jailed for 16 years, the Birmingham Six are freed.
*March 16 - Dublin is officially inaugurated as the European City of Culture.
*June 26 - The wrongful convictions of the Maguire Seven are quashed.
*November 6 - Kildare TD Seán Power proposes a no-confidence motion in Charles Haughey's leadership.
*November 7 - The Minister for Finance, Albert Reynolds, is sacked from the government over his intention to support the no-confidence motion.
*November 13 - Jim McDaid, the new Defence Minister, resigns following criticism from the opposition over his attendance at an IRA funeral.

Arts and literature

port

Athletics

* Frank O'Mara wins the world indoor 3000m championship for the second time.

Cycling

*19 October - Seán Kelly wins the Tour of Lombardy.

Football

*The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final finishes on a score of Down GAA 1-16 Meath GAA 1-14.

Golf

*Carroll's Irish Open is won by Nick Faldo (England).

Hurling

*The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final finishes on a score of Tipperary GAA 1-16 Kilkenny GAA 0-15.

Motor racing

* Eddie Jordan enters his Jordan team in the World Formula One Championship, becoming the first Irish owned constructor in Formula One.

Births

*28 February - Sarah Bolger, actress.
*16 August - Evanna Lynch, actress.

Deaths

January to June

*29 January - Joe Stynes, Irish Republican and sportsman (b.1903).
*19 February - Thekla Beere, civil servant (b.1902).
*20 April - Sean O'Faolain, short story writer (b.1900).
*22 May - Valentin Iremonger, poet and diplomat (b.1918).
*25 May - John M. Feehan, author and publisher (b.1916).
*25 May - Eddie Fullerton, Sinn Féin councillor, killed by the Ulster Defence Association (b.1935).

July to December

*17 October - J. G. Devlin, actor (b.1907).
*13 November - Francis Blackwood, 10th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (b.1916).
*12 November - Billy Behan, soccer player and scout (b.1911).
*15 November - George Otto Simms, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and Archbishop of Armagh (b.1910).
*19 November - Michael Lyons, Fine Gael TD and Senator (b.1910).
*1 December - Pat O'Callaghan, athlete and Olympic gold-medallist (b.1905).

Full date unknown

*Hubert Butler, writer and historian (b.1900).