Events from the year 1856 in Ireland.
Events
Births
- 14 February â Frank Harris, author, editor, journalist and publisher (died 1931).
- 20 March â John Lavery, artist (died 1941).
- 26 March â William Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1925 in New Zealand).
- 2 May â Matt Talbot, manual labourer and ascetic (died 1925).
- 26 July â George Bernard Shaw, playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) (died 1950).
- 18 August â Walter Richard Pollock Hamilton, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1879 at Futtehabad, Afghanistan (died 1879).
- 17 November â Thomas Taggart, politician in the United States (died 1929).
- 28 November â Patrick O'Donnell, Cardinal, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (died 1927).
- 21 December
- Catherine Coll, mother of ÃÂamon de Valera (died 1932)
- Sidney Royse Lysaght, writer (died 1941)
- Tomás àCriomhthain, writer and fisherman (died 1937).
Deaths
See also
References
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