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List of events
Events from the year 1998 in Ireland.
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Golf
Hurling
Swimming
- 6 August – Olympic gold medalist
Michelle Smith was banned from competition for four years for tampering with a drug test.
Births
Deaths
- 26 January –
Ernest Gébler, writer (b. 1914).
- 8 February –
Niall Sheridan, poet, fiction writer and broadcaster (b. 1912).
- 28 February –
Dermot Morgan, actor and comedian (b. 1952).
- 15 March –
Hugh Coveney,
Fine Gael
TD and Cabinet Minister, yachtsman (b. 1935).
- 17 April –
Robin Lawler, soccer player (born 1925).
- 6 May –
Sybil Connolly, fashion designer (b. 1921).
- 22 May –
Jim Power,
Galway
hurler (b. 1894).
- 26 May –
Kate Cruise O'Brien, writer (b. 1948).
- 23 June
- 26 July –
Seán Ó hEinirí, fisherman,
seanchaí and monolingual speaker of the
Irish language (b. 1915).
- 13 August –
Liam de Paor, historian and archaeologist (b. 1926).
- 20 September –
Robert Malachy Burke,
Christian Socialist and philanthropist (b. 1907).
- 10 October –
Tommy Quaid,
Limerick hurler (b. 1957).
- 11 November –
Paddy Clancy, folk singer (b. 1922).
- 13 November –
Valerie Hobson, actress (b. 1917).
- 21 November –
John David Gwynn, cricketer (b. 1907).
- 26 December –
Cathal Goulding,
Chief of Staff of the
Irish Republican Army and the
Official IRA (b. 1923).
- Full date unknown –
Patrick Hickey, visual artist (b. 1927).
See also
References
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