1956 in Northern Ireland
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[edit] Events
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] Sport
[edit] Football
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- Winners: Linfield
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- Winners: Distillery 2 - 2, 0 - 0, 1 - 0 Glentoran
[edit] 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).
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- 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.
[edit] 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).
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- James Cousins, poet and writer (b.1873).
- Ella Young, poet (b.1867).