1993 in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

• Monarch - Elizabeth II

  Events

• 24 June - Northern Ireland Minister Michael Mates resigns over links with tycoon Asil Nadir.
• 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.

  Arts and literature

• Ciarán Carson's First Language: Poems collection is published and wins the T. S. Eliot Prize.

  Sport

Football

• Irish League
• Irish Cup

  Motorcycling

• Cookstown 100 125cc race

  Mountaineering

• 27 May - Belfast architect Dawson Stelfox becomes one of the first Irish people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

  Births

• 24 November - Saoirse-Monica Jackson, actress

  Deaths

• 23 March - Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon.
• 14 September - Sheelagh Murnaghan, only Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament at Stormont.
• 23 October - Thomas Begley, Provisional Irish Republican Army member killed planting a bomb.
• 15 November - Jimmy McAlinden, footballer and football manager.
• 9 December - Danny Blanchflower, footballer and football manager.