1956 in Northern Ireland

Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown

Events

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Distillery 2 - 2, 0 - 0, 1 - 0 Glentoran

Births

• 5 February - Jackie Woodburne, actress.
• 24 May - Michael Jackson, Bishop of Clogher (2002 - ).
• 2 September - Angelo Fusco, former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army and escapee.
• 3 September - Pat McGeown, volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (d.1996).
• 13 September - Bobby Campbell, footballer.
• 19 September - Gerry McElhinney, footballer.
• 10 October - Amanda Burton, actress.
• 18 November - Noel Brotherston, footballer (d.1995).

Full date unknown

• Ronan Bennett, novelist and screenwriter.
• David Catherwood, composer and conductor.
• Christopher Dye, Coordinator of Tuberculosis Monitoring and Evaluation at the World Health Organization and Gresham Professor of Physic.
• SJ Michaels, writer.
• Don Mullan, writer and film producer
• Dermot Seymour, artist

Deaths

• 18 March - Benjamin Glazer, Academy Award-winning writer, producer and director (b.1887).
• 5 August - John Miller Andrews, second Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (b.1871).
• 25 November - Robert Bowers, cricketer (b.1897).

Full date unknown

• James Cousins, poet and writer (b.1873).
• Ella Young, poet (b.1867).