1856 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date Unknown

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[edit] Arts and literature

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• 14 February - Frank Harris, author, editor, journalist and publisher (d.1931).
• 20 March - John Lavery, artist (d.1941).
• 2 May - Matt Talbot, manual labourer and ascetic (d.1925).
• 26 July - George Bernard Shaw, playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) (d.1950).
• 18 August - Walter Richard Pollock Hamilton, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Futtehabad, Afghanistan (d.1879).
• 28 November - Patrick Cardinal O'Donnell, Roman Catholic, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (d.1927).

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• Tomás Ó Criomhthain, writer (d.1937).

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• 27 January - John Lalor, journalist and author (b.1814).
• 4 February - William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel, peer and MP (b.1801).
• 18 March - Henry Eldred Curwen Pottinger, soldier and colonial administrator, first Governor of Hong Kong (b.1789).
• 31 May - Yankee Sullivan, bare knuckle fighter and boxer (b.1811).
• 2 June - Robert Carew, 1st Baron Carew, politician (b.1787).

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• Theobald Mathew, aka Father Mathew, temperance reformer (b.1790).