1999 in Ireland

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Events

• 4 January – The Euro makes its debut on European financial markets.
• 13 January – Derek Hill becomes the eleventh honorary citizen of Ireland.
• 5 February – New legislation changes the name of the RSI No to the Personal Public Service Number and expands its use.
• 31 March – The Irish Land Commission is dissolved.
• 27 April – States of Fear television series made by Mary Raftery for RTÉ begins broadcasting. Its revelations of a history of institutional child abuse lead to questions being raised in the Dáil^[1] and an apology to victims from the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, and appointment of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse in May.
• 21 May – Gay Byrne hosts his last Late Late Show after 37 years.
• 22 May – The electorate of the entire island of Ireland go to the polls to vote on the Good Friday Agreement.
• 23 May – People North and South give their overwhelming support to the Good Friday Agreement.
• 11 August – Ireland joins the world and watches the last solar eclipse of the millennium.
• 28 August – 80,000 fans see the Robbie Williams concert at Slane Castle, County Meath.
• 12 October – Peter Mandelson arrives in Belfast as the new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
• 20 October – President McAleese leads 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 are lifted.^[2]
• 29 November – Ten designated ministers are appointed to the power-sharing Northern Ireland Assembly.
• 2 December – The Irish Government ratifies changes to Articles 2 and 3 of the Constitution. Direct rule from Westminster in Northern Ireland ends.
• 13 December – The first meeting of the North/South Ministerial Council takes place in Armagh.
• 31 December – The last sunset of the millennium occurs at 4.41 pm at Dursey Head in west Cork^{[citation needed]}.

Arts and literature

• 10 April – Sligo boyband Westlife release their first single, Swear It Again, the first of seven which will go straight to the number one in the UK Singles Chart.
• 1 November – Westlife release their first album, five singles from which will go to number one in the UK Singles Chart.

Sport

Gaelic football

• Meath GAA beat Cork GAA 1–11 to 1–8 to win their second All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in four years.

Golf

• Murphy's Irish Open is won by Sergio García (Spain).

Hurling

• Cork GAA beat Kilkenny GAA 0–13 to 0–12 to win the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship for the first time since 1990.

Soccer

• St Patrick's Athletic win the League of Ireland for the 3rd time in 4 years.

Births

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Deaths

January to June

• 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, Irish 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, cafe proprietor (b.1913).
• 23 May – Cathal Gannon, harpsichord maker and fortepiano restorer (b.1910).
• 15 June – Fred Tiedt, boxer (b.1935).

July to December

• 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.
• 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).
• October – Micheál Cranitch, Fianna Fáil politician, Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann in 1973. (b.1912).
• 14 November – Brian Ó Cuív, son-in-law of Éamon de Valera, Celtic scholar and author.
• 29 November – Michael O'Halloran, politician in the UK (b.1933).
• 30 December – Tom Aherne, soccer player (b.1919).

Full date unknown

• Manliff Barrington, motorcycle racer (b.1910).

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