Irish Coin Cufflinks by Year
40th Birthday Gift for Her – 1986 Irish 5p Pendant
€59.00
Celebrate a 40th birthday in 2026 with a pendant made from a genuine Irish 5p coin dated 1986. The coin features the Irish bull on one side and the Irish harp with the original 1986 date on the other. Each coin is cleaned and hand-polished before being mounted in the pendant.
The pendant is handmade in Dalkey, County Dublin, and supplied in a presentation box with a snake chain, ready to give. The original coin already carries the birth year, so no engraving or personalisation is required. Orders are normally processed within 24 hours and covered by our 30-day returns policy.
Coin diameter: 23.59 mm.
Click the Description tab for events and memories from 1986.
Description
1986
Kerry won the All Ireland Senior Football Champions
Cork won the All Ireland Senior Hurling Champions
Born that year were:
Charlotte Church (Singer)
Inventions in 1986 included
High temperature super conductor
Synthetic skin
Disposable camera
Famous Irish movies included
Lamb, with the Irish actor Liam Neeson
Also that year
US bombs Libya in protest at Libyan sponsorship of terrorist organizations involved in the bomb exploded in the crowded La Belle disco in Berlin, Germany.
Breakthrough in US – USSR Arms Talks between Reagan and Gorbachev leads to commitment to disarm thus ending a long period of instability caused by the Cold War
Spain and Portugal join the EEC
John McCarthy, a British TV journalist, is kidnapped in the capital of Lebanon, Beirut.
1986 is also the year of the ‘Challenger’ disaster. Seven people die on board the US space shuttle.
At Chernobyl in the Soviet Union, a nuclear reactor explodes. It is the world’s worst civil nuclear disaster.
As the Lebanese civil war worsens, Belfast man Brian Keenan is kidnapped. He will spend four years as a hostage.
Dublin Airport opens for the first time on Christmas day.
Hurricane ‘Charlie’ reaches Ireland in August. The East and Southeast are worst hit.
Two new pandas arrive in Dublin zoo, Ming Ming and Ping Ping.
Irelands new soccer manager arrives in Dublin in February 1986, his name is Jack Charlton
Caravan of Love by the Housemartins is Christmas number 1.
On the 17th of May, in the RDS – Dublin, Bob Geldof and Christy Moore organise ‘Self Aid’, a concert to raise money for job growth. Artists who play include, The Pogues, Van Morrison, Christy Moore, Chris De Burgh, Boomtown Rats, Rory Gallagher, U2 and the first public appearance of Thin Lizzy since the death of Phil Lynott.
Popular TV shows this year include the BBC’s Only fools and Horses.
The Irish Christmas number 1 was The Housemartins, ‘Caravan Of Love’
1986 popular songs
Dire Straits: Walk Of Life
The Waterboys: Whole Of The Moon
Billy Ocean: When The Going Gets Tough
Chris de Burgh: Lady In Red
Housemartins: Caravan Of Love
Bon Jovi: You Give Love A Bad Name
Dermot Morgan: Thank You Very Much, Mr. Eastwood
Wham!: Edge Of Heaven
