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