1956 in Northern Ireland

1956 in Northern Ireland

Events

Arts and literature

port

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.

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).


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