Events
- 3 February – John Gilligan's extradition from the UK to Ireland on drug trafficking and murder charges is completed.
- 11 February – The British government suspends devolution in Northern Ireland.
- 10 April – The ambulance service regulator, the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council, is established.
- Spring – Clive Cussler's National Underwater and Marine Agency discovers the wreck of RMS Carpathia (sunk 1918) 120 mi (190 km) west of Fastnet Rock.
- 6 May – The Provisional Irish Republican Army begins decommissioning its weapons.
- 30 May – Devolution returns to Northern Ireland.
- 12 December – Bill Clinton, President of the United States, arrives in Dublin beginning what will be his last international trip as President and meets with President McAleese and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and gives a speech in Dundalk.
- 13 December – Bill Clinton meets with the political leaders of Northern Ireland.
- 31 December – Ireland celebrates as the 20th century draws to a close.
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“When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
““The ideal reasoner,” he remarked, “would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.””
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)