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Events during the year 1999 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

First Minister - David Trimble
deputy First Minister - Seamus Mallon
Secretary of State - Mo Mowlam (until 11 October), Peter Mandelson (from 11 October)

Events

15 March - Rosemary Nelson, a Lurgan solicitor, is killed in a car bomb attack by loyalist paramilitary group the Red Hand Defenders.
April - Senator George Mitchell Peace Bridge opened across the Border.
14 May - The fully renovated St George's Market in Belfast reopens its doors.
21 October - Peter Mandelson arrives in Belfast as the new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
29 November - Ten designated ministers are appointed to the power-sharing executive of the 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.
Nuala O'Loan is appointed as first Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland.

Arts and literature

Ciaran Carson publishes The Ballad of HMS Belfast: A Compendium of Belfast Poems.
Seamus Heaney publishes a verse translation of Beowulf from the Old English.
Glenn Patterson publishes his novel The International.

Sport

Athletics

The 27th IAAF World Cross Country Championships were held 27–28 March in Belfast.

Football

Ulster Senior Football Championship

Winners: Armagh

Ulster Senior Club Football Championship

Winners: Crossmaglen Rangers

Irish League

Winners: Glentoran

Irish Cup

Winners: Portadown (as Cliftonville were disqualified)

Golf

The Amateur Championship is held at Royal County Down Golf Club, (winner:Graeme Storm).

Births

4 January - Ross Corrigan, rower

Deaths

January to June

11 January - Brian Moore, novelist (b.1921).
15 January - Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland (b.1919).
28 January - Markey Robinson, artist (b.1918).
15 March - Rosemary Nelson, solicitor killed by loyalist paramilitary group.
4 April - Sir James Flanagan, first and only Roman Catholic Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. (b.1914).
3 May - Paddy Kennedy, Republican Labour Party Councillor and MP (b.1942).
6 June - Billy Brown, musician and artist (b.1943).
29 June - Declan Mulholland, actor (b.1932).

July to December

1 July - William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
15 August - Paddy Devlin, a founder of the SDLP, a member of the 1974 Power Sharing Executive and author (b.1925).
21 August - Noel Larmour, cricketer and diplomat (b.1916).
23 August - James White, science fiction novelist (b.1928).
15 October - Josef Locke, tenor (b.1917).

Full date unknown

Eamon Collins, Provisional Irish Republican Army activist and writer (b.1954).

See also

References

^ Edwards, Aaron (2011). The Northern Ireland Troubles. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-84908-525-0.