1991 in Ireland - Events

Events

  • January 1 - Limerick City celebrates 300 years of the Treaty of Limerick.
  • January 17 - There is controversy as the government allows United States military aircraft bound for the Gulf War to refuel at Shannon Airport.
  • January 24 - The new Government Buildings in the renovated College of Science are officially opened.
  • February 7 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army fires mortar bombs at 10 Downing Street in London.
  • March 14 - After being wrongfully jailed for 16 years, the Birmingham Six are freed.
  • March 15 - Sugar Act provides for privatization of Cómhlucht Siúicre Éireann, Teo., the state-owned sugar beet processor, as Greencore.
  • March 16 - Dublin is officially inaugurated as the year's European Capital of Culture.
  • April 10 - An unarmed Provisional Irish Republican Army Volunteer was shot died in Downpatrick by the RUC.
  • 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 dismissed 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.

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