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List of events
Events from the year 1999 in Ireland.
Incumbents
Events
- 4 January – The
euro made its debut on European financial markets.
- 13 January –
Derek Hill became the eleventh honorary citizen of Ireland.
- 5 February – New legislation changed the name of the RSI Number to the
Personal Public Service Number and expanded its use.
- 31 March – The
Irish Land Commission was dissolved.
- April –
Senator George Mitchell Peace Bridge opened across the
Irish border.
- 27 April – The
States of Fear television series, made by
Mary Raftery for
RTÉ, began broadcasting. Its revelations of a history of institutional
child abuse led to questions being raised in the
Dáil,
[1] an apology to victims from the
Taoiseach,
Bertie Ahern, and the appointment of a
Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse in May.
- 21 May –
Gay Byrne hosted his last
Late Late Show after 37 years.
- 17 June –
UEFA punished the
Football Association of Ireland with a fine of £25,000 for not fulfilling a
Euro 2000 qualifier against
Yugoslavia.
[2]
- 11 August – Ireland joined the world in watching the last solar eclipse of the millennium.
- 18 August -
President McAleese attended a
novena in
Knock, County Mayo.
- 28 August – 80,000 fans saw the
Robbie Williams concert at
Slane Castle, County Meath.
- 12 October –
Peter Mandelson arrived in
Belfast as the new
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
- 20 October –
President McAleese led tributes to the former
Taoiseach
Jack Lynch who died aged 82.
- November – Remaining prohibition orders made under the Censorship of Publications Acts relating to
contraception or
termination of pregnancy were lifted.
[3]
- 28 November – A bright
fireball passed over
Leighlinbridge,
County Carlow accompanied by detonations. Four stone
meteorite fragments totalling 271.4g were found afterwards and classified as
ordinary chondrites.
[4]
- 29 November – Ten designated ministers were appointed to the power-sharing
Northern Ireland Assembly.
- December - The
Millennium Bridge is opened in Dublin.
- 2 December
- 13 December – The first meeting of the
North/South Ministerial Council took place in
Armagh.
- Inez McCormack of the
UNISON trade union became the first woman President of the
Irish Congress of Trade Unions.
[5]
Arts and literature
Sport
Golf
Hurling
Births
Deaths
January to June
- 15 January –
Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry,
Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland (b. 1919)
- 28 January –
Markey Robinson, artist (b. 1918)
- 8 February –
Iris Murdoch, novelist and philosopher (b. 1919)
- 22 February –
Pat Upton,
Labour Party
TD (b. 1944)
- 25 April –
William McCrea, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1904)
- 25 April –
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, journalist, author, sports official and sixth president of the
International Olympic Committee (b. 1914)
- 11 May –
Birdy Sweeney, actor (b. 1931)
- 19 May –
Victor Bewley, café proprietor (b. 1913)
- 23 May –
Cathal Gannon,
harpsichord maker and
fortepiano restorer (b. 1910)
- 15 June –
Fred Tiedt, boxer (b. 1935)
July to December
- 17 July –
Donal McCann, actor (b. 1943)
- 27 July –
Malachi Martin,
Roman Catholic priest and author (b. 1921)
- 21 August –
Noel Larmour, cricketer and diplomat (b. 1916)
- 21 August –
Maurice Gerard Moynihan, civil servant and writer (b. 1902)
- 24 August –
Eithne Strong, poet
- 4 September –
Raonaid Murray, victim of an unsolved murder (b. 1982)
- 13 October –
Michael Hartnett, poet (b. 1941)
- 15 October –
Josef Locke, tenor (b. 1917)
- 20 October –
Jack Lynch, former
Taoiseach and leader of
Fianna Fáil (b. 1917)
- 14 November –
Brian Ó Cuív, son-in-law of
Éamon de Valera, Celtic scholar and author
- 23 November –
Micheál Cranitch, Fianna Fáil politician,
Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann in 1973 (b. 1912)
- 29 November –
Michael O'Halloran, politician in the UK (b. 1933)
- 30 December –
Tom Aherne, soccer player (b. 1919)
Full date unknown
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