* 1915 – Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright ( d. 1997 )

A 1989 recording of Enya singing " Oíche Chiúin ", an Irish language version of " Silent Night ", has been reissued at least twice: on The Christmas EP ( which otherwise contains several non-holiday related previously issued recordings by Enya ) and the 1997 edition of the charity album A Very Special Christmas.

" My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music ," she said in a 1997 interview.

According to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs White Paper on Foreign Policy, there were 213, 000 Irish citizens living in Australia in 1997 ; nearly three times the number of Irish-born immigrants to the country.

The Irish Catholic Diaspora in America ( Catholic University of America Press, 1997 )

* 1997 – John Joseph Scanlan, Irish Catholic prelate ( b. 1930 )

* 1997 – The Troubles: In response to the Drumcree dispute, five days of mass protests, riots and gun battles begin in Irish nationalist districts of Northern Ireland.

* 1997 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.

In 13 November 1997, Liz O ' Donnell ( Irish Minister for State ) spoke about the relationship between the two nations and Ireland's future commitment towards Lesotho.

The LTTE has been accused of hijacking several vessels and ships in waters outside Sri Lanka, including Ocean Trader ( in October 1994 ), Irish Mona ( in August 1995 ), Princess Wave ( in August 1996 ), Athena ( in May 1997 ), Misen ( in July 1997 ), Morong Bong ( in July 1997 ), MV Cordiality ( in September 1997 ), Princess Kash ( in August 1998 ), Newko ( in July 1999 ), Uhana ( in June 2000 ), Fuyuan Ya 225 ( Chinese trawler, in March 2003 ), MV Farah III ( in December 2006 ) and City of Liverpool ( in January 2007 ).

In 1994 DEC sold the PDP-11 system-software rights to Mentec Inc., an Irish producer of LSI-11 based boards for Q-Bus and ISA architecture personal computers, and in 1997 discontinued PDP-11 production.

** Edward Mulhare, Irish actor ( The Ghost and Mrs. Muir ) ( d. 1997 )

The Loyalist Volunteer Force ( LVF ) leader Billy Wright was shot dead in December 1997 by two Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) prisoners.

* 1997: Irish Times International Fiction Prize, shortlist, A Fine Balance

On the morning of 27 December 1997, Wright was assassinated by the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) inside Maze Prison.

* 1989 Joins board of Irish Music Rights Organisation ( IMRO ), on which he serves continuously until 1997.

* Robert Simpson ( UK politician ) ( 1923 – 1997 ), Northern Irish politician

The 1997 Grand National was postponed after two coded bomb threats were received from the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

* Paul Smith ( Irish writer ) ( 1920 – 1997 ), writer and playwright

Prior to becoming president in 1997, McAleese had also held the following positions: Director of Channel 4 Television, Director, Northern Ireland Electricity, Director, Royal Group of Hospitals Trust and Founding member of the Irish Commission for Prisoners Overseas.

In 1997, McAleese defeated former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds in an internal party election held to determine the Fianna Fáil nomination for the Irish presidency.

After finishing her first book, in 1997, Hesser was hired as a food reporter for The New York Times.

Until June 2007, The New York Times, from which the Square gets its name, was published at offices at 239 West 43rd Street ; the paper stopped printing papers there on June 15, 1997.

* July 22, 1997, The New York Times Company: Signal Travels Farther and Faster Than Light

In 1997 the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective announced that they had been responsible for the perpetration of the " Good Times " virus hoax as an exercise to " prove the gullibility of self-proclaimed " experts " on the Internet.

" There has long been a lively debate about who is the strongest player of all ", wrote GM Robert Byrne in his New York Times column of Aug. 26, 1997.

* Richard Beeston, Looking For Trouble: The Life and Times of a Foreign Correspondent, 1997, published by Brassey's, London.

Riccardo Puglisi of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology looks at the editorial choices of the New York Times from 1946 to 1997.

In 1997, the acute employment problem at St Helena was brought to the attention of the British public following reports in the tabloid press of a " riot " following an article in the Financial Times describing how the Governor, David Smallman ( 1995 – 1999 ), was jostled by a small crowd who believed he and the Foreign Office had rejected plans to build an airport on the island.

The New York Times reported on January 29, 1997 that Patterson had been working with bungee cords that were being handled by volunteers who had received little training.

In 1997, the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs ( which is critical of United States and Israeli policies ), praised the Times ( along with The Christian Science Monitor owned by the Church of Christ, Scientist ), and the Times ’ sister publication The Middle East Times for their objective and informative coverage of Islam and the Middle East, while criticizing the Times generally pro-Israel editorial policy.

On September 21, 1997, the exact 100th anniversary of the original publication of the editorial, The New York Times published an analysis of its enduring appeal.

Writing with Rachel Caspari, their Race and Human Evolution ( 1997, Simon & Schuster ) was very favorably reviewed in professional journals and in the New York Times, where it was recommended reading.

In the 1990s, after playing the lead female role in the short-lived My Life and Times, Hunt starred in the series Mad About You, winning Emmy Awards for her performances in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.

* White Wolf: Ill Met In Lankhmar ( 1995 ; books 1 and 2, with a new introduction by Michael Moorcock and Fritz Leiber's " Fafhrd and Me "), Lean Times in Lankhmar ( 1996 ; books 3 and 4, with a new introduction by Karl Edward Wagner ), Return to Lankhmar ( 1997 ; books 5 and 6, with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ), and Farewell to Lankhmar ( 1998 ; book 7 ; the hardcover edition omits the final seven chapters of " The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars ")

In 1997 The New York Times, covering the book The Death of Innocents: A True Story of Murder, Medicine and High-Stakes Science, wrote:

LSE ranked 3rd overall in the Sunday Times University Guide cumulative ranking over a ten year period ( 1997 – 2007 ), and ranked 4th in the Complete University Guide 2012.

* " Signs of the Times: Autographs of luminaries: from Lincoln to Liberace ", Steve Kemper, Smithsonian magazine, Nov. 1997.

The harbor, the Los Angeles Times said in 1997, is " perhaps the county's most valuable resource ".

This Race for the Times program originally aired on Feb. 25, 1997 on 90. 5 FM KSJS San Jose "

Following their appearance at the All Tomorrows Parties festival, the New York Times reported that Shields was planning to complete the unfinished album: " I realized that all that stuff I was doing in 1996 and 1997 was a lot better than I thought.

Murray Polner and Jim O ' Grady, " Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Lives & Times of Daniel & Philip Berrigan ( Basic Books, 1997 ; Westvew Press, 1998 ) He also contributed to Disciples and Dissidents, published in 2000 by Haley's.