1993 in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

• Secretary of State – Patrick Mayhew

Events

• 24 June – Northern Ireland Minister Michael Mates resigns over links with tycoon Asil Nadir.
• 23 October – Shankill Road bombing carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Belfast. There are 10 fatalities, including the bomber.
• 30 October – Greysteel massacre carried out by Ulster Freedom Fighters, at the Rising Sun Bar in Greysteel. Eight civilians are shot dead.
• 9 December – Footballer Danny Blanchflower dies of Alzheimer's disease aged 67.
• 15 December – Albert Reynolds and John Major issue their joint Downing Street Declaration.

Arts and literature

• Ciarán Carson's First Language: Poems collection is published and wins the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Sport

Football

• '''Irish Cup'''

Motorcycling

• '''Cookstown 100 125cc race'''

Mountaineering

• 27 May – Belfast architect Dawson Stelfox becomes one of the first Irish people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Births

• 24 November – Saoirse-Monica Jackson, actress

Deaths

• 23 March – Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon.
• 14 September – Sheelagh Murnaghan, only Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament at Stormont.
• 23 October – Thomas Begley, Provisional Irish Republican Army member killed planting a bomb.
• 15 November – Jimmy McAlinden, footballer and football manager.
• 9 December – Danny Blanchflower, footballer and football manager.