- 1956 in Northern Ireland
Events
Arts and literature
port
Football
*Irish League::Winners: Linfield
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Irish Cup ::Winners: Distillery 2 - 2, 0 - 0, 1 - 0 GlentoranBirths
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5 February -Jackie Woodburne , actress.
*24 May - Michael Jackson, Bishop of Clogher (2002 - ).
*2 September -Angelo Fusco , former volunteer in theProvisional Irish Republican Army and escapee.
*3 September -Pat McGeown , volunteer in theProvisional Irish Republican Army , took part in the1981 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
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Ronan Bennett , novelist and screenwriter.
*David Catherwood ,composer and conductor.
*Christopher Dye , Coordinator of Tuberculosis Monitoring and Evaluation at theWorld Health Organization andGresham Professor of Physic .
*SJ Michaels , writer.
*Don Mullan , writer and film producer.Deaths
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18 March -Benjamin Glazer , Academy Award-winningwriter , producer and director (b.1887).
*5 August -John Miller Andrews , secondPrime Minister of Northern Ireland (b.1871).
*25 November -Robert Bowers , cricketer (b.1897).Full date unknown
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James Cousins , poet and writer (b.1873).
*Ella Young , poet (b.1867).
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