Events during the year 1956 in Northern Ireland.
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Football
:Winners: Linfield
:Winners: Distillery 2 - 2, 0 - 0, 1 - 0 Glentoran
Births
- 14 January â Ronan Bennett, novelist and screenwriter.
- 5 February â Jackie Woodburne, actress.
- 7 February â Rose-Marie, singer (died 2024).
- 11 April â Bobby Storey, Provisional Irish Republican Army activist, escapee and Sinn Féin politician (died 2020).
- 15 April â Christopher Dye, Coordinator of Tuberculosis Monitoring and Evaluation at the World Health Organization and Gresham Professor of Physic.
- 7 May â David Catherwood, composer and conductor.
- 24 May â Michael Jackson, Anglican Bishop of Clogher (2002 - ).
- 2 September â Angelo Fusco, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and escapee.
- 3 September â Pat McGeown, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer, participant in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (died 1996).
- 13 September â Bobby Campbell, footballer.
- 19 September â Gerry McElhinney, footballer.
- 10 October â Amanda Burton, actress.
- 18 November â Noel Brotherston, footballer (died 1995).
- Full date unknown â Don Mullan, writer and film producer.
Deaths
See also
References