* 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.

She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1987 general election as member for the constituency of Maidstone ( which became Maidstone and The Weald in 1997 ).

A general wind-down of the budget led to it being cancelled in 1997.

On 6 May 1997, following the 1997 general election which brought a Labour government to power for the first time since 1979, it was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Bank of England would be granted operational independence over monetary policy.

In 1997, a group led by Vladimiro Roca, a decorated veteran of the Angolan war and the son of the founder of the Cuban Communist Party, sent a petition, entitled La Patria es de Todos (" the homeland belongs to all ") to the Cuban general assembly requesting democratic and human rights reforms.

However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

At the 1997 general election he became MP for Glasgow Anniesland, which was largely the same constituency with minor boundary changes.

A new constitution was promulgated in 1997 but has not yet been implemented, and general elections have been postponed.

This riding was formerly known as Fredericton-York-Sunbury but was redistributed prior to the 1997 general election.

In the 1997 unrest in Albania the general elections of June 1997 brought the Socialists and their allies to power.

Irsay quickly replaced general manager Tobin with Bill Polian in 1997 as the team decided to build through their number one overall pick in the 1998 draft.

In the general election of 1997 the party gained a seat when John Gormley won a Dáil seat in Dublin South – East.

In 1997 the Fundación Isaac Albéniz was founded in his name to promote Spanish music and musicians and to act as a research centre for Albéniz and Spanish music in general.

By this time the " New " Labour Party was seen as a reformed and fresh alternative under the leadership of Tony Blair, and after eighteen years in office the Conservatives lost the 1997 general election in one of the worst electoral defeats since the Great Reform Act of 1832.

Following boundary changes, Major became Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Huntingdon in 1983 and retained the seat in the 1987, 1992 and 1997 general elections.

Few then were surprised when Major's Conservatives lost the 1 May 1997 general election to Tony Blair's " New Labour ", although the immense scale of the defeat was not as widely predicted: in 1987 and 1992 the Conservatives had polled better than had been suggested by the opinion polls, but in 1997 this was no longer the case.

It should be noted, however, that decisions of the Privy Council before 1 July 1997 on non-Hong Kong appeals, just as decisions of British courts in general, are not strictly binding on Hong Kong courts, for all that such decisions are persuasive and will be treated with great respect by courts of Hong Kong.

In Sweden, Kult has been noted by the general press several times, and in 1997 the Kult core rules was quoted in a motion in the Parliament of Sweden.

* 1997 – Kelly Flinn, US Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial.

In the 1997 general election, the NLP ran 197 candidates for Parliament in the UK, garnering 0. 10 % of the vote, with every candidate losing their deposit.

In the general election of 1997, for example, 13. 5 million people voted for the Labour Party led by Tony Blair ; 9. 6 million for the Conservative Party, led by John Major, the previous Prime Minister ; and, 5. 2 million for the Liberal Democrat Party led by Paddy Ashdown.

He became Prime Minister because in 1994 he was elected Labour Party leader and then led the party to victory in the 1997 general election, winning 418 seats compared to 165 for the Conservatives and gaining a majority in the House of Commons.

Approaching free agency, Martínez was traded to the Boston Red Sox in November 1997 for Carl Pavano and Tony Armas, Jr., and was soon signed to a six-year, $ 75, 000, 000 contract ( with an option for a seventh at $ 17 million ) by Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette, at the time the largest ever awarded to a pitcher.