1998 in Northern Ireland
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1998 in Northern Ireland
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[edit] Events
- January 9 - British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam, visits loyalist prisoners in the Maze prison. Afterwards loyalists agree to attend the Stormont talks.
- February 20 - Sinn Féin is excluded from the Northern Ireland talks for two weeks. Protests in Belfast follow.
- April 10 - Good Friday: the British and Irish governments and all the political parties in the Northern Ireland (except the Democratic Unionist Party sign the Belfast Agreement.
- May 19 - John Hume and David Trimble join U2 on stage in Belfast as they make a direct appeal to young voters in Northern Ireland to vote 'yes' in the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement.
- May 22 - The Belfast Agreement is endorsed in a referendum by people north and south of the border.
- June 25 - The people of Northern Ireland go to the polls to elect a new Assembly.
- July 12- Three young children are killed in a loyalist arson attack in Ballymoney.
- August 15 - 29 people die in a bomb explosion near the centre of Omagh, County Tyrone, caused by the Real IRA.
- September 3 - President Clinton of the United States visits Omagh and views the bomb damage.
- October 16 - John Hume and David Trimble are announced as the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
- December 10 - John Hume and David Trimble are presented with the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] Sport
[edit] Football
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- Winners: Cliftonville
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Sean McAloon, Uillean piper and pipe maker (b.1923).
