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{{YearInIrelandNav|1982}} Events from the year '''1982 in Ireland'''.
==Incumbents== * President: Patrick Hillery * Taoiseach: ** Garret FitzGerald (FG) (until 9 March 1982) ** Charles Haughey (FF) (from 9 March 1982 until 14 December 1982) ** Garret FitzGerald (FG) (from 14 December 1982) * Tánaiste: ** Michael O'Leary (Lab) (until 9 March 1982) ** Ray MacSharry (FF) (from 9 March 1982 until 14 December 1982) ** Dick Spring (Lab) (from 14 December 1982) * Minister for Finance: ** John Bruton (FG) (until 9 March 1982) ** Ray MacSharry (FF) (from 9 March 1982 until 14 December 1982) ** Alan Dukes (FG) (from 14 December 1982) * Chief Justice: Tom O'Higgins * Dáil: ** 22nd (until 27 January 1982) ** 23rd (from 9 March 1982 until 4 November 1982) ** 24th (from 14 December 1982) * Seanad: ** 15th (until 16 April 1982) ** 16th (from 13 May 1982 until 21 December 1982)
==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 war 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 – Twenty thousand people across the country marched to protest against 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. * 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/21/newsid_2489000/2489349.stm|title=1982: Sinn Féin triumph in elections|work=On This Day|date=21 October 1982|publisher=BBC|access-date=2013-04-02}}</ref> * 27 October – Pte Michael McAleavey, an Irish Army soldier on service with UNIFIL in South Lebanon, murdered three of his colleagues: Pte Peter Burke, Pte Thomas Murphy, and Cpl Gary Morrow.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thejournal.ie/lebanon-irish-army-1982-tibnin-709898-Dec2012/|title = 1982: A year of tragedy for Irish soldiers in the Lebanon}}</ref> * 1 November - A newly designed £50 note was launched featuring a portrait of musician Turlough O'Carolan. * 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 became a pedestrianised street. * 6 December – Ballykelly disco bombing: The Irish National Liberation Army killed 17 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.<ref name=PI>{{cite web|title=Playography Ireland|url=http://www.irishplayography.com/|publisher=Irish Theatre Institute|location=Dublin|access-date=2015-04-08}}</ref> * 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.<ref name=PI/> * 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. * 30 July - The second and final Occasion at the Castle music festival takes place in Castlebar, County Mayo.<ref>{{cite web |last= |first= |date=27 April 2022 |title=Occasion, Occasion: Castlebar, 1981 |url=https://theblackpoolsentinel.com/2022/04/27/occasion-occasion-castlebar-1981/ |website= |location= |publisher= |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Gillespie |first=Tom |date=11 February 2023 |title=Rock festival days in Mayo’s county town |url=https://www.con-telegraph.ie/2023/02/11/rock-festival-days-in-mayos-county-town/ |work=Connaught Telegraph |location= |publisher= |access-date=20 May 2025}}</ref> * 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''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Poet wins £1,000 Rooney Prize|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=17 September 1982}}</ref> 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 were denied a fifth consecutive All-Ireland Senior Football Championship title by Offaly in a famous final.
===Golf=== *The Irish Open was won by Irishman John O'Leary.
===Hurling=== *Kilkenny 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.
==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 (d. 2021).<ref>{{cite web |website=Shelbourne F.C. Official Website |publisher=Shelbourne FC |url=http://www.shelbournefc.com/players.php?playerid=498 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208071937/http://www.shelbournefc.com/players.php?playerid=498 |archive-date=8 February 2012 |title=Player Profiles: Alan Keely |access-date=13 September 2021}}</ref> *20 May – Wes Hoolahan, soccer player.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/26015/Wes_Hoolahan.html |title=Wes Hoolahan |publisher=National Football Teams |access-date=13 September 2021}}</ref> *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. *5 August – John Lester, soccer player. *10 September – Andrew Murray, boxer.
===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). *3 March – Con Cottrell, Cork hurler (born 1917). *18 March – Patrick Smith, TD and Cabinet Minister (born 1901). *26 March – Sam Kydd, actor (born 1915). *26 May – Pamela Hinkson, novelist (born 1900).<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=spe-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA181 |last=van de Kamp |first=Peter G. W. |chapter=Some Notes on the Literary Estate of Pamela Hinkson |title=Yeats Annual No. 4 |editor-last=Gould |editor-first=Warwick |editor-link=Warwick Gould |year=1986 |publisher=The Macmillan Press Ltd |page=181 |isbn=978-1-349-06838-8}}</ref> *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 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 in London).
===Full date unknown=== *Mick Kennefick, Cork hurler (born 1924). *Caitlín Maude, poet, actress and traditional singer (born 1941).
==See also== *1982 in Irish television
==References== {{Reflist}}
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