1982 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1982 in Ireland.

Incumbents

• President: Patrick Hillery (Fianna Fáil)
• Taoiseach:
  • until 9 March: Garret FitzGerald (Fine Gael)
  • 9 March-14 December: Charles Haughey (Fianna Fáil)
  • starting 14 December: Garret FitzGerald (Fine Gael)

Events

• 21 January – Kildare TD, Charlie McCreevy, was expelled from the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party for criticising Charles Haughey.
• 27 January – Garret FitzGerald's Fine Gael-Labour government was defeated 82–81 on its budget; the 22nd Dáil was dissolved.
• 1 February – Corporal punishment was banned in schools.
• 18 February – General election: Fianna Fáil was the largest party.
• 9 March – 23rd Dáil assembled; Charles Haughey was elected Taoiseach.
• 12 March – The country's first crematorium was officially opened at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.
• 6 April – James Prior launched 'rolling devolution' for Northern Ireland.
• 28 April – Work began on the Cork–Dublin natural gas pipeline.
• 2 May – The Government affirmed its neutrality in the Falklands conflict between the United Kingdom and Argentina, and opposed European Economic Community sanctions against Argentina (as did Italy).
• 10 May – Seamus Mallon of the Social Democratic and Labour Party was appointed to Seanad Éireann.
• 24 May – 20,000 people across the country marched in protest at income tax and Pay Related Social Insurance changes.
• 20 July – The Irish Republican Army killed ten servicemen in bomb attacks in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in London.
• 16 August – The Attorney General Patrick Connolly resigned after a wanted double-murderer was found staying on his property; the ensuing scandal was later described as being "grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented" by Taoiseach Charles Haughey.
• 14 September – Ireland mourned the death of Princess Grace of Monaco, the Irish American former film actress Grace Kelly.
• 6 October – Taoiseach Charles Haughey won a majority of 58 votes to 22 in an open ballot on Charlie McCreevy's motion of no confidence in his leadership.
• 15 October – Cork Airport celebrated its 21st birthday. The airport had yet to make a profit.
• 20 October – Polling took place in the Northern Ireland Assembly election. Sinn Féin won its first five seats in the Assembly, with Gerry Adams representing Belfast West.
• 27 October – Pte Michael McAleavey, an Irish Army soldier on service with UNIFIL in South Lebanon, murders three of his colleagues: Pte Peter Burke, Pte Thomas Murphy and Cpl Gary Morrow.
• 2 November – Former leader of the Labour Party, Michael O'Leary, joined the Fine Gael Party.
• 4 November – The government lost a confidence motion in the Dáil by 82 votes to 80. President Hillery dissolved the 23rd Dáil.
• 24 November – General election: Fine Gael was the largest party.
• 1 December – Grafton Street in Dublin officially opened as a pedestrianised street.
• 3 December – Patrick Hillery was installed as President of Ireland for a second term.
• 6 December – Ballykelly disco bombing: The Irish National Liberation Army killed seventeen people in a bomb attack at the Droppin Well Inn, Ballykelly, County Londonderry.
• 14 December – The 24th Dáil assembled; Garret FitzGerald was elected Taoiseach.
• Undated event: Rice Bridge replaced Redmond Bridge in Waterford City.

Arts and literature

• 11 March – Frank McGuinness's first play, The Factory Girls, set in a Donegal shirt factory, was premiered on the Abbey Theatre's Peacock stage in Dublin.
• 22 April – Graham Reid's play The Hidden Curriculum, set in West Belfast, was premiered on the Peacock Stage of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
• 16 June (Bloomsday) – Ulysses broadcast: RTÉ Radio transmitted an uninterrupted, unabridged, 30-hour dramatised performance of James Joyce's novel Ulysses to mark the centenary of the author's birth. The marathon broadcast won a Jacob's Award.
• 24 July – The second Slane Concert took place with The Rolling Stones, The J. Geils Band, The Chieftains, and George Thorogood and the Destroyers playing at Slane Castle.
• September – Medbh McGuckian was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, with a special prize to Seán Ó Tuama and Thomas Kinsella for An Duanaire / Poems of the Dispossessed. McGuckian's poetry collection The Flower Master was published this year.
• Maeve Binchy's first novel Light a Penny Candle was published.
• Unlicensed operator Radio Nova began broadcasting in Dublin.

Sport

Gaelic football

• Kerry GAA were denied a fifth consecutive All-Ireland Senior Football Championship title by Offaly GAA in a famous final.

Golf

• Carroll's Irish Open was won by John O'Leary (Ireland).

Hurling

• Kilkenny GAA won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

Rugby

• The Ireland rugby team won the Triple Crown Ireland for the first time since 1949 by beating Scotland 21–12 on 21 February, having already beaten Wales and England.

Soccer

• Ireland did not qualify for the 1982 football world cup.

Births

January to June

• 22 January – Alan McDermott, soccer player.
• 10 February – Keith Dunne, soccer player.
• 11 February – John Melligan, soccer player.
• 18 February – Damien Hayes, Galway hurler.
• 6 March – J. J. Delaney, Kilkenny hurler.
• 4 April – Robbie Hedderman, soccer player.
• 6 April – Philip Byrne, soccer player.
• 27 April – Cliff Byrne, soccer player.
• 27 April – Stephen O'Flynn, soccer player.
• 5 May – Noel O'Leary, Cork Gaelic footballer.
• 10 May – Alan Keely, soccer player.
• 28 May – Wes Hoolahan, soccer player.
• 19 June – Jackie Tyrrell, Kilkenny hurler.

July to December

• 13 July – James Masters, Cork Gaelic footballer.
• 20 July – Aidan Fogarty, Kilkenny hurler.
• 21 July – Brian Murphy, Cork hurler.
• 29 July – Andy Reid, soccer player.
• 31 July – Alan O'Hare, soccer player.
• 1 August – Anthony Murphy, soccer player.
• 5 August – John Lester, soccer player.
• 12 August – Glen Barry, actor.
• 10 September – Andrew Murray, boxer.
• 20 October – Ciaran Quinn, soccer player.

Full date unknown

• Graham Callinan, Cork hurler.
• Sarah Flannery, winner of the 1999 Esat Young Scientist Exhibition.
• Peter Lawlor, Limerick hurler.
• Kevin McMahon, Cork Gaelic footballer.
• Damian Reale, Limerick hurler.
• Pat Tobin, Limerick hurler.

Deaths

• 1 January – Michael Hilliard, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP (born 1903).
• 16 January – Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet, cricketer, squash player and art collector (born 1909).
• 5 February – George Crothers, cricketer (born 1909).
• 16 February – Vivion de Valera, barrister, managing director of The Irish Press, Fianna Fáil TD representing Dublin North–West (born 1910).
• 18 March – Patrick Smith, TD and Cabinet Minister (born 1901).
• 26 March – Sam Kydd, actor (born 1915).
• 15 June – Johnny Callanan, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1910).
• 7 July – Charles Hill, cricketer (born 1903).
• 24 August – Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, poet and writer (born 1919).
• 13 September – Mick Mackey, Limerick hurler and first recipient of the GAA All-Time All-Star Award (Hurling) (born 1912).
• 5 October – Séamus Ennis, Uilleann piper, singer and folk-song collector (born 1919).
• 18 November – Hilton Edwards, actor, director, co-founder of Gate Theatre (born 1903).

Full date unknown

• Con Cottrell, Cork hurler (born 1917).
• Pamela Hinkson
• Mick Kennefick, Cork hurler (born 1924).
• Caitlín Maude, poet, actress and traditional singer (born 1941).