1995 in Ireland

none February 2021 October 2020 March 2012 1995 Events from the year 1995 in Ireland. Incumbents President: Mary Robinson Taoiseach: John Bruton (FG) Tánaiste: Dick Spring (Lab) Minister for Finance: Ruairi Quinn (Lab) Chief Justice: Liam Hamilton Dáil: 27th Seanad: 20th Events January 27 January – Taoiseach, John Bruton, and Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams held their first formal peace discussions. February 2 February – President Mary Robinson addressed a joint session of the Houses of the Oireachtas. 15 February – English football hooligans rioted at Lansdowne Road stadium in Dublin during a friendly match between Ireland and England. The match was abandoned with Ireland 1–0 ahead. There were over 70 injuries, most of them English. The English fans were escorted out of Ireland by the Army. 22 February – The British Prime Minister, John Major, and the Taoiseach, John Bruton, launched a peace framework document for Northern Ireland. March 7 March – Sir Patrick Mayhew, Northern Ireland Secretary, set out the conditions for Sinn Féin to join all-party peace talks, including "the actual decommissioning of some arms." 14 March – The American embassy in Dublin wrote to the Department of Foreign Affairs to say that the United States space administration, NASA, might need to use Shannon Airport as a landing site for their Space Shuttles during possible launch emergencies. The Americans said their spacecraft would be retrieved from Shannon and that they would pay compensation if it missed the airport and crashed on a populated area. They also mentioned that Irish authorities were obliged to allow the spacecraft to land according to international treaties signed by Ireland. NASA wanted to use Shannon Airport as emergency landing zone Fiachra Ó Cionnaith Harry Manning Evelyn O'Rourke 2025-12-27 RTÉ News https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/1227/1550308-shannon-airport-nasa/ 19 March – Dublin boxer Steve Collins beat world champion Chris Eubank to win the World Boxing Organization super middleweight championship title. April 10 April – The Heritage Act 1995 was signed into law. https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1995/act/4/enacted/en/print.html Heritage Act, 1995 irishstatutebook.ie Irish Statute Book 1995 2026-10-06 May 19 May – Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh made a visit to Northern Ireland. On the same day US President Bill Clinton approved a visa for Gerry Adams to enter the United States. 23 May – President Robinson visited the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma to express the thanks of the Irish people for a donation by the tribe to the starving people of Ireland during the Great Famine in April 1847. President of Ireland Mary Robinson Addresses the Choctaw People Michael D. Wilson 2025-09-13 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee https://sites.uwm.edu/michael/choctaw-homepage/president-of-ireland-mary-robinson-addresses-the-choctaw-people/ Speech by the President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, on the occasion of her visit to the Choctaw Tribal Complex, Durant, Oklahoma Mary Robinson 1995-05-23 Áras an Uachtaráin https://president.ie/en/media-library/speeches/speech-on-the-occasion-of-her-visit-to-the-choctaw-tribal-complex 25 May – The last edition of The Irish Press newspaper was published. 31 May – The Prince of Wales began his first official visit to Dublin. June 4 June – Ireland qualified for the quarterfinals of the 1995 Rugby World Cup. July 10 July – The Heritage Council was established under the Heritage Act, 1995, to "propose policies and priorities for the identification, protection, preservation, and enhancement of the national heritage" with a headquarters in Kilkenny.https://www.heritagecouncil.ie/content/files/annual_report_2006_5mb.pdf The Heritage Council Annual Report 2006 heritagecouncil.ie Heritage Council 2007-05-01 2026-10-06 6 1393 6794https://irishmuseums.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Museum-Ireland-Vol-5-1995-Irish-Museums-Association.pdf Museum Ireland. Vol. 5 5 irishmuseums.org Irish Museums Association / Cumann Mhúsaeim na hÉireann 1995-09-01 2026-10-06 57 0961 9690 August 13 August – Gerry Adams told a rally in Belfast that the Irish Republican Army (IRA) "haven't gone away." September 9 September – David Trimble became leader of the Ulster Unionist Party. 13 September – The Cabinet agreed the wording of a Constitutional Amendment on divorce. 25 September – The Censorship of Publications Board removed a ban on the sale of Playboy magazine, following the magazine's appeal against the prohibition. The National Women's Council of Ireland protested against the removal of the ban, which had existed since 1961.Associated Press Censors lift ban on Playboy Sun-Journal 1995-09-27 3A https://news.google.ie/newspapers?id=JN0gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B2sFAAAAIBAJ&dq=playboy%20ireland&pg=2550%2C4757731 2024-05-29 November 2 November – A new blue-coloured £50 note featuring former president Douglas Hyde was issued. 11 November – Neil Blaney, the longest serving member of the Dáil, was buried on the Fanad Peninsula in County Donegal. 17 November – Virgin Cinemas Dublin (Cineworld Dublin from 2005 onwards) opened on Dublin's Parnell Street.Hayes Dermott 17 November 1995 Richard's on air https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-herald/178492617/ Evening Herald Dublin, Ireland 9 August 2025 The first film to premiere at the cinema was The Brothers McMullen.Hayes Dermott 16 November 1995 Whipping up a storm to rival Richard https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-herald/178492689/ Evening Herald Dublin, Ireland 9 August 2025 21 November – South Africa's deputy-President, F. W. de Klerk, addressed a Forum for Peace and Reconciliation at Dublin Castle. 24 November – In the divorce referendum, citizens voted narrowly to allow divorce. A vote recount two days later confirmed the result. 30 November – American President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary spent the day in Northern Ireland. December 1 December – President Bill Clinton addressed both Houses of the Oireachtas in Dublin.President of the United States, Joseph R Biden Jr to address joint sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas Houses of the Oireachtas, 2023-04-05. Afterwards, he addressed 80,000 people in College Green. Later, he attended a state dinner at Dublin Castle. 12 December – Plans for a £200 million light rail transit system in Dublin were announced. Eventually to be called Luas, it was to connect the city centre with Sandyford, Tallaght and Ballymun. 16 December – A tribunal was established to compensate victims of Hepatitis C. 21 December – Jack Charlton retired as manager of the Irish football team. Arts and literature 24 January – The Chieftains' album The Long Black Veil was released. It included collaborations with Van Morrison (on Have I Told You Lately) and Sinéad O'Connor (on folk songs including He Moved Through the Fair). 21 April – Sitcom Father Ted, written by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan and starring Dermot Morgan and Ardal O'Hanlon, first aired on Channel 4 television in the United Kingdom.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111958/releaseinfo IMDb Release dates for "Father Ted" 2012-03-21http://www.rte.ie/ten/2011/0104/fatherted.html RTÉ Alan Corr In Ted We Trust 4 January 2011 2012-03-21 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20121102145331/http://www.rte.ie/ten/2011/0104/fatherted.html 2 November 2012 2–23 May – Historical mini-series The Hanging Gale premiered on RTÉ One television. 13 May – Ireland staged the Eurovision Song Contest. 5 October – Poet Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The memorial sculpture Universal Links on Human Rights was commissioned in DublinDoherty Neal The complete guide to the statues and sculptures of Dublin City 2015 978-1-909895-72-0 Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland 142 907195579 Sebastian Barry's play The Steward of Christendom was produced for the first time. Phil Coulter wrote the anthem Ireland's Call to a commission from the Irish Rugby Football Union. Emma Donoghue's novel Hood was published.Smyth Gerry The Novel and The Nation: Studies in the New Irish Fiction London Pluto Press 1997 Anne Enright's first novel The Wig My Father Wore was published. Marian Keyes' first novel Watermelon was published. Patrick McCabe's novel The Dead School was published. Rachel Joynt and Remco de Fouw's sculpture Perpetual Motion was installed on the Naas by-pass. Sport Association football 15 February – A match between Ireland and England was abandoned in the first half after some of the England fans ripped out seating in the West Stand of Lansdowne Road stadium and hurled it onto the pitch. Ireland had been leading 1–0 before the match was stopped. Boxing 9 September – Steve Collins, "The Celtic Warrior", successfully defended his World Boxing Organization super middleweight title against Chris Eubank at the Green Glens Arena, Millstreet, County Cork.Steve Collins https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/645 BoxRec 2012-04-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20150329154226/http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=645&cat=boxer 29 March 2015 live Gaelic football 17 September – Dublin were the All-Ireland football Champions following victory over Tyrone. Golf The Irish Open was won by Sam Torrance (Scotland). Hurling Under new manager Ger Loughnane, Clare won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship for the first time since 1914. Births 3 February – Orla Gartland, singer-songwriter 11 April – Sycerika McMahon, swimmer 5 August – Evan Finnegan, footballer 6 September – Oisin Murphy, jockey Unknown date – Chris Walley, actor Deaths February 1 February – Tom O'Reilly, Cavan Gaelic footballer and independent teachta dála (TD) for Cavan 1944–1948 (born 1915) 5 February – Des Foley, Gaelic footballer and hurler and Fianna Fáil TD (born 1940). 20 February – Thom McGinty ("The Diceman"), actor, model, and street mime artist (born 1952). March 14 March – Gerard Victory, composer (born 1921). 30 March Harold Marcus Ervine-Andrews, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1940 near Dunkirk, France (born 1911). John Lighton Synge, mathematician and physicist (born 1897). April 3 April – Jeremiah Newman, Bishop of Limerick. 14 April – Brian Coffey, poet and publisher (born 1905). 24 April – Florrie Burke, association footballer (born 1918). June 7 June – Joseph Tomelty, actor and playwright. 14 June – Rory Gallagher, guitarist (born 1948). 25 June – Ernest Walton, physicist, 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics (born 1903). 27 June – Gordon Wilson, peace campaigner (born 1927). July 4 July – Seán Fallon, Fianna Fáil politician, Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from 1992 until his death. (born 1937) 12 July – Muriel Gahan, promoter of country crafts. 19 July – Paddy Keaveney, Independent Fianna Fáil TD (born 1929). August 23 August – Johnny Carey, association footballer and manager (born 1919). September 21 September – Frank Hall, journalist and satirist (born 1921). 27 September – Sean Conway, Fianna Fáil senator. October 16 October – Gus Martin, 59, literary academic, broadcaster, teacher, author, senator. Martin, (Thomas) Augustine ('Gus') Anthony Roche October 2009 Dictionary of Irish Biography https://www.dib.ie/biography/martin-thomas-augustine-gus-a5471 November 1 November – Brian Lenihan, Fianna Fáil TD, cabinet minister and Seanad Éireann member (born 1930). 8 November – Neil Blaney, Fianna Fáil TD, cabinet minister and MEP (born 1922). December 8 December – Philip Lawrence, London-based headmaster stabbed to death outside the gates of his school when he went to help a pupil being attacked by a gang (born 1947). 18 December – Colville Deverell, cricketer and politician (born 1907). 19 December – P. A. Ó Síocháin, journalist, author and lawyer (born 1905). 25 December – James Boucher, cricketer (born 1910). Full date unknown Niall Ó Dónaill, Irish language lexicographer and writer (born 1908). See also 1995 in Irish television References 1995 Category:Years of the 20th century in Ireland Ireland Category:1990s in Ireland