Seamus Deane's first novel, Reading in the Dark (published in 1996), is shortlisted for the Booker Prize and wins the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and The Irish Literature Prize.
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26 August - U2 play their first Belfast concert in over a decade as part of the PopMart Tour.
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