1998 in Northern Ireland

9 January - British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam, visits loyalist prisoners in the Maze prison. Afterward loyalists agree to attend the Stormont talks.^[1]
20 February - Sinn Féin is excluded from the Northern Ireland talks for two weeks. Protests in Belfast follow.^[2]
10 April (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.^[3]^[4]^[5]
19 May - 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.^[6]
22 May - The Belfast Agreement is endorsed in a referendum by people north and south of the border.^[7]
25 June - The people of Northern Ireland go to the polls to elect a new Assembly.
June - Crumlin Road Courthouse is closed and the site is eventually sold to a private developer.^[8]
1 July - The new Northern Ireland Assembly first meets, in "shadow" form; Reg Empey and Seamus Mallon are elected First Minister and deputy First Minister respectively.
12 July - Drumcree conflict: Three young children are killed in a loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force arson attack in Ballymoney.^[9]
15 August - Omagh bombing: 29 people die in a car bomb explosion near the centre of Omagh, County Tyrone, caused by the Real Irish Republican Army.^[10]
3 September - Bill Clinton, President of the United States, visits Omagh and views the bomb damage.^[11]
16 October - John Hume and David Trimble are announced as the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
6 November - David Trimble returns as First Minister in succession to Reg Empey.
10 December - John Hume and David Trimble are presented with the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway.

1998 in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

Events

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

Motorcycling

Deaths

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References

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