1990 in Northern Ireland
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Decades: 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s Centuries: 20th • 21st See also: 1990 in the United Kingdom 1990 in Ireland Other events of 1990

Events

• 1 January - The Northern Ireland Fair Employment Act becomes law.
• 24 July - The IRA kills three policemen and a nun in a bomb attack near Armagh.
• 24 August - Brian Keenan is released after 1574 days in captivity in Beirut.
• 24 October - The IRA kills 6 soldiers and a civilian in bomb attacks at Derry and Newry.

Arts and literature

• Ciarán Carson's Belfast Confetti poetry collection is published and wins the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry.
• Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa opens at the Abbey Theatre.

Sport

Football

• Northern Ireland does not qualify for the 1990 world cup

• Irish League

Winners: Portadown

• Irish Cup

Winners: Glentoran 3 - 0 Portadown

Golf

• Ireland (David Feherty, Ronan Rafferty, Philip Walton) win the Dunhill Cup.

Motorcycling

• Robert Dunlop wins three MCN Supercup races, two races at the North West 200 and the 125cc race at the Isle of Man TT.

Births

• 25 January - Michael Clarke, radio presenter.

Deaths

• 21 January - Patrick Mulligan, Bishop of Clogher 1970-1979 (b.1912).
• 12 February - Harold McCusker, Ulster Unionist Party MP (b.1940).
• 6 April - Peter Doherty, footballer (b.1913).
• 8 May - Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland 1978-1990 (b.1923).
• 12 June - Terence O'Neill, Fourth Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (b.1914).
• 1 October - John Stewart Bell, scientist (b.1928).
• 15 October - David McCalden, Holocaust denier (b.1951).
• 18 November - Fred Daly, golfer (b.1911).