20 February 1981World RecordEamonn Coghlan
Breaks the indoor mile record, 3 mins 50.6 secs
Historical records for Ireland in 1981, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Breaks the indoor mile record, 3 mins 50.6 secs
FitzGerald takes office leading a coalition between Fine Gael and Labour.
Agrees with Margaret Thatcher to establish the Anglo-Irish inter-Governmental Council
Represents Ireland as leaders consider budget disputes and renewed European integration.
Supports stronger European political cooperation during the London European Council.
IRA prisoners convicted after March 1976 did not have Special Category Status applied in prison, in response, over 500 prisoners refuse to wash or wear prison clothes
Hunger strike leader Bobby Sands and Anti H-Block activist Owen Carron are elected to the British Parliament, and two other protesting prisoners are elected to the Irish Doil
After the success of IRA hunger strikers in mobilising support and winning elections on an Anti H-Block platform in 1981, republicans increasingly devote time and resources to electoral politics, through the Sinn Fein party
After the success of IRA hunger strikers in mobilising support and winning elections on an Anti H-Block platform in 1981, republicans increasingly devote time and resources to electoral politics, through the Sinn Fein party
Hunger strike leader Bobby Sands and Anti H-Block activist Owen Carron are elected to the British Parliament, and two other protesting prisoners are elected to the Irish Doil
Hunger strike leader Bobby Sands and Anti H-Block activist Owen Carron are elected to the British Parliament, and two other protesting prisoners are elected to the Irish Doil
After the success of IRA hunger strikers in mobilising support and winning elections on an Anti H-Block platform in 1981, republicans increasingly devote time and resources to electoral politics, through the Sinn Fein party
After the success of IRA hunger strikers in mobilising support and winning elections on an Anti H-Block platform in 1981, republicans increasingly devote time and resources to electoral politics, through the Sinn Fein party
Hunger strike leader Bobby Sands and Anti H-Block activist Owen Carron are elected to the British Parliament, and two other protesting prisoners are elected to the Irish Doil
Hunger strike leader Bobby Sands and Anti H-Block activist Owen Carron are elected to the British Parliament, and two other protesting prisoners are elected to the Irish Doil
Danny Morrison sums up the new political policy at a 1981 Sinn Fein Ard Fheis (annual meeting) as a "ballot paper in this hand and an Armalite in the other"
IRA prisoners convicted after March 1976 did not have Special Category Status applied in prison, in response, over 500 prisoners refused to wash or wear prison clothes (see Dirty protest and Blanket protest)
After the success of IRA hunger strikers in mobilising support and winning elections on an Anti H-Block platform in 1981, republicans increasingly devote time and resources to electoral politics, through the Sinn Fein party
After the success of IRA hunger strikers in mobilising support and winning elections on an Anti H-Block platform in 1981, republicans increasingly devote time and resources to electoral politics, through the Sinn F‚in party
Appointed Prime Minister of Ireland, 2nd term
Records Renegade as Thin Lizzy experiments with a more polished early-1980s sound.
Danny Morrison sums up the new political policy at a 1981 Sinn Fein Ard Fheis (annual meeting) as a "ballot paper in this hand and an Armalite in the other"
Danny Morrison sums up the new political policy at a 1981 Sinn Fein Ard Fheis (annual meeting) as a "ballot paper in this hand and an Armalite in the other". After the success of IRA hunger strikers in mobilising support and winning elections on an Anti H-Block platform in 1981, republicans increasingly devote time and resources to electoral politics, through the Sinn Fein party
IRA prisoners convicted after March 1976 did not have Special Category Status applied in prison, in response, over 500 prisoners refuse to wash or wear prison clothes
Over 100,000 people attend the funeral of Sands, the first hunger striker to die
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