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EVENTS

April 14 - The Central Bank issues a new £5 note.

April 30 - Ireland wins the 39th Eurovision Song Contest with the song ''Rock 'n' Roll Kids.''

May 26 - Jack Charlton is awarded the freedom of Dublin City .

June 6 - Irish D-Day veterans join Allied leaders at a 50th commemorative ceremony on Omaha Beach.

July 26 - The Minister For Education , Niamh Bhreathnach , pledges the introduction of free third-level education for everyone over the next three years.

August 31 - The IRA announce a complete cessation of military operations.

September 1 - Transition Year is introduced mainstream, to secondary schools.

September 6 - An Taoiseach Albert Reynolds , John Hume and Gerry Adams hold an historic meeting at Government Buildings. All three pledge their commitment to the democratic idea.

September 30 - An Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and members of the government wait at Shannon Airport to greet President Boris Yeltsin . He fails to leave the aircraft to meet them.

October 13 - Loyalist paramilitary groups announce a ceasefire six weeks after the IRA .

October 28 - The inaugural session of the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation takes place in St. Patricks Hall, Dublin Castle .

November 16 - The Fianna Fáil - Labour coalition collapses.

November 17 - Albert Reynolds tenders his resignation as Taoiseach . However, the Dáil is not dissolved.

November 19 - Bertie Ahern is elected leader of Fianna Fáil .

ARTS AND LITERATURE

SPORTS

Eamonn Coghlan becomes the first person in the world over 40 years of age to run a sub-four minute mile.

In the World Cup Finals in the United States , the Republic of Ireland football team reaches the last 16 before losing 2-0 to the Netherlands .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

January 1 - Raymond Crotty , economist.

March 6 - Flann Campbell , educationists and historian.

May 12 - Sir Alfred Beit , connoisseur.

May 27 - M.J. Molloy , playwright.

June 17 - Terence De Vere White , novelist and biographer.

July 18 - Davoren Hanna , poet.

July 19 - Éilis Dillon , author.

December 6 - Máire De Paor , archaeologist.