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1999 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1999 in Ireland
.
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See also:
1999 in Northern Ireland
Other events of 1999
List of years in Ireland
Incumbents
edit
President
:
Mary McAleese
Taoiseach
:
Bertie Ahern
(
FF
)
Tánaiste
:
Mary Harney
(
PD
)
Minister for Finance
:
Charlie McCreevy
(
FF
)
Chief Justice
:
Liam Hamilton
Dáil
:
28th
Seanad
:
21st
Events
edit
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
The
Irish Government
ratified changes to Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution.
Direct rule from
Westminster
in
Northern Ireland
ended.
Foras na Gaeilge
was established as an agency of
The North/South Language Body
under the terms of the
Good Friday Agreement
to promote the
Irish language
throughout the island of Ireland, assuming the roles of
Bord na Gaeilge
,
An Gúm
, and
An Coiste Téarmaíochta
, previously state bodies of the
Government of Ireland
.
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
edit
10 February –
Mark O'Rowe
's play
Howie the Rookie
premièred at the
Bush Theatre
, London.
[6]
19 April –
Sligo
boyband
Westlife
released their first single,
Swear It Again
, the first of fourteen that went straight to number one in the
UK Singles Chart
.
6 October –
Frank McGuinness
's drama
Dolly West's Kitchen
premièred at the
Abbey Theatre
, Dublin.
[7]
1 November – Westlife released their first album, five singles from which went to number one in the UK Singles Chart.
Colm Tóibín
's novel
The Blackwater Lightship
was published.
Sport
edit
Association football
edit
St Patrick's Athletic
won the
League of Ireland
for the third time in four years.
Gaelic football
edit
Meath
beat
Cork
1–11 to 1–8 to win their second
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
in four years.
Golf
edit
Murphy's Irish Open
was won by
Sergio García
(Spain).
Hurling
edit
Cork
beat
Kilkenny
0–13 to 0–12 to win the
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
for the first time since
1990
.
Births
edit
22 January –
David Clifford
, Gaelic footballer
18 May –
Mark Travers
, footballer
Deaths
edit
January to June
edit
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
edit
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
edit
Manliff Barrington
, motorcycle racer (b. 1910)
Áine Ní Cheanainn
, educationalist (b. 1907)
See also
edit
1999 in Irish television
References
edit
^
Dáil adjournment comments, 29 April 1999
[
permanent dead link
]
^
"Ireland fined £25,000 for cancelled Yugoslavia match".
RTÉ News
. 17 June 1999.
^
Iris Oifigiúil
, 7 March 2000
^
Leighlinbridge The Meteoritical Society, Retrieved: 16 February 2013
^
O'Toole, Fintan. "15 women who made a breakthrough".
irishtimes.com
. Archived from the original on 28 November 2010
. Retrieved
18 January
2020
.
^
"Howie the Rookie".
Playography Ireland
. Dublin: Irish Theatre Institute
. Retrieved
23 July
2017
.
^
"Dolly West's Kitchen".
Playography Ireland
. Dublin: Irish Theatre Institute
. Retrieved
30 June
2015
.
External links
edit
1999 at
Reeling in the Years