1991 in Northern Ireland

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Events during the year 1991 in Northern Ireland.

• Secretary of State - Peter Brooke

• 3 June - The British Special Air Service kills three Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) members in the Coagh ambush.
• 2 November - An IRA bomb explodes in Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast, killing two British Army soldiers and injuring 11 other people.^[1]
• Roscoff Restaurant in Belfast becomes the first in Northern Ireland to be awarded a Michelin star.

• Brian Keenan publishes An Evil Cradling, an autobiographical account of more than four years as a hostage in Beirut.
• Michael Longley's collection Gorse Fires is published; it will win the Whitbread Poetry Award.

• Irish League

Winners: Portadown

• Irish Cup

Winners: Portadown 2 - 1 Glenavon

• Robert Dunlop wins the 125cc race at the Cookstown 100, and the 125cc and Junior TT races at the Isle of Man TT.

• 17 October - J. G. Devlin, actor (born 1907).
• 13 November - Francis Blackwood, 10th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (born 1916).
• November - George Otto Simms, Archbishop of Armagh.

• Professor John Dundee, leading anaesthetist (born 1921).

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