1993 in Northern Ireland

Centuries:	20th; 21st;
Decades:	1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 2010s;
See also:	1993 in the United Kingdom; 1993 in Ireland; Other events of 1993; List of years in Northern Ireland;

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).

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