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1956 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1956 in Ireland
.
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See also:
1956 in Northern Ireland
Other events of 1956
List of years in Ireland
Incumbents
edit
President
:
Seán T. O'Kelly
Taoiseach
:
John A. Costello
(
FG
)
Tánaiste
:
William Norton
(
Lab
)
Minister for Finance
:
Gerard Sweetman
(
FG
)
Chief Justice
:
Conor Maguire
Dáil
:
15th
Seanad
:
8th
Events
edit
15 February – Senator
Owen Sheehy-Skeffington
introduced a motion calling for the prohibition of all corporal punishment for girls in Irish
national schools
.
2 April – President
Seán T. O'Kelly
unveiled a bust of
Countess Markievicz
in
St Stephen's Green
,
Dublin
.
1 May – the
Minister for Education
Richard Mulcahy
introduced the debate on a separate government department for the
Gaeltacht
.
21 May – President
Seán T. O'Kelly
opened the first
Cork International Film Festival
.
29 May –
T. K. Whitaker
was appointed new Secretary at the Department of Finance.
12 August – The
Gaelic Athletic Association
postponed the
All-Ireland Hurling
and
Football
Finals due to an outbreak of polio.
21 November –
Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children
was opened in
Crumlin, Dublin
.
30 November – Petrol rationing was due to be introduced from 1 January due to the
Suez Crisis
.
1 December – At the
Olympic Games
in
Melbourne, Australia
,
Ronnie Delany
won Ireland's first gold medal for 24 years.
12 December – The
Irish Republican Army
launched its
Border Campaign
in Northern Ireland
[1]
with the bombing of a
BBC
relay transmitter in
County Londonderry
, burning of a courthouse in
Magherafelt
by a unit led by 18-year-old
Seamus Costello
,
[1]
and of an
Ulster Special Constabulary
post near
Newry
and blowing up of a half-built
British Army
barracks at
Enniskillen
. A raid on
Gough Barracks
in
Armagh
was beaten off after a brief exchange of fire.
Undated
The second
Coimisiún na Gaeltachta
redefined the boundaries of the
Gaeltacht]
.
Robert Briscoe
became the first Jewish
Lord Mayor of Dublin
.
[2]
Arts and literature
edit
June – Painter
Louis le Brocquy
represented Ireland at the
Venice Biennale
.
Samuel Beckett
's novel
Malone Dies
was published in English.
Sport
edit
Association football
edit
League of Ireland
Winners:
St Patrick's Athletic
FAI Cup
Winners:
Shamrock Rovers
3–2
Cork Athletic
.
Births
edit
1 January –
John O'Donohue
, poet and
philosopher
(died
2008
).
16 January –
Denis Moran
,
Kerry
Gaelic footballer.
17 January –
Joe Hennessy
,
Kilkenny
hurler.
27 January –
Joe Duffy
, radio presenter.
11 February –
Pat Carroll
,
Offaly
hurler (died
1986
).
13 February –
Liam Brady
, international soccer player.
21 February –
Johnny Crowley
,
Cork
hurler.
4 March –
Ciarán Brennan
, singer, songwriter, producer and instrumentalist.
13 April –
Jim Lynagh
,
Provisional Irish Republican Army
member killed in an ambush by the SAS during an attack on
Loughgall
RUC station (died
1987
).
16 April –
Paul Drechsler
, businessman.
29 April –
Kevin Moran
, Gaelic footballer and soccer player.
30 April –
Liam T. Cosgrave
,
Fine Gael
politician,
Cathaoirleach
of
Seanad Éireann
1996–1997
4 May –
Steve Barron
, film director and producer.
5 May –
Mary Coughlan
, singer.
9 May –
Brendan Howlin
, national teacher,
Labour Party
Teachta Dála
for
Wexford
and Cabinet Minister.
15 May –
Pat Byrne
, soccer player and manager.
18 May –
Pat Fleury
,
Offaly
hurler, manager.
21 May –
Sean Kelly
, cyclist and broadcaster.
24 May –
Michael Jackson
,
Church of Ireland Bishop of Clogher
.
28 May –
John O'Donoghue
,
Fianna Fáil
TD
for
Kerry South
and Cabinet Minister.
1 June –
Brendan Smith
,
Fianna Fáil
TD
for
Cavan–Monaghan
and
Minister of State
.
4 June –
Gerry Ryan
,
RTÉ
radio presenter. (Died 30 April 2010)
7 June –
Marty Whelan
,
RTÉ
radio and television presenter.
1 July –
Liz O'Donnell
, Deputy Leader of the
Progressive Democrats
,
TD
and Minister of State.
10 July –
Frank Stapleton
, soccer player and manager.
12 July –
Cathal Ó Searcaigh
, poet.
August –
Denis Mulcahy
,
Cork
hurler.
26 August –
Dick Hooper
, long-distance runner.
5 September –
Willie Mullins
, jockey, racehorse trainer.
4 October –
Mary Kennedy
, television presenter.
13 October –
Joe Connolly
,
Galway
hurler.
1 November –
Charles Flanagan
,
Fine Gael
TD
for
Laois–Offaly
.
5 November –
Marita Conlon-McKenna
, children's writer.
4 December –
Nia Griffith
Welsh Labour
Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)
.
19 December –
Shane McEntee
,
Fine Gael
TD
for
Meath East
.
Undated
Patrick Cassidy
, composer.
Dorothy Cross
, sculptor and installation artist.
Frankie Gavin
, fiddle and flute player.
Alice Maher
, painter and sculptor.
Valerie Mulvin
, architect.
Tadhg Murphy
,
Cork
hurler.
Richie Reid
,
Kilkenny
hurler.
Fran Rooney
, businessman.
Deaths
edit
30 January –
Sir John Keane, 5th Baronet
, barrister, member of
Seanad
(born
1873
).
20 February –
James Cousins
, poet and writer (born
1873
).
21 February –
Louis Meldon
, cricketer (born
1886
).
13 March –
Alfie Byrne
,
Irish Nationalist
politician, served both as an
MP
in the
British House of Commons
and as a
TD
in
Dáil Éireann
(born
1882
).
18 March –
Benjamin Glazer
,
Academy Award
-winning writer,
producer
and
director
(born
1887
).
19 March –
Matt Goff
,
Kildare
Gaelic footballer (born
1901
).
24 March –
Bob Lambert
, cricketer (born
1874
).
20 April –
Ida Mary Costello
, wife of Taoiseach
John A. Costello
(born
1891
).
17 May –
John Tudor Gwynn
, cricketer (born
1881
).
22 May –
Elizabeth Cronin
, traditional singer (born
1879
).
11 June –
Seán Óg Murphy
,
Cork
hurler,
Gaelic Athletic Association
administrator (born
1892
).
23 July –
Ella Young
, poet (born
1867
).
5 August –
J. M. Andrews
, second
Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
(born
1871
).
23 September –
Arthur Duff
, composer and conductor (born
1899
).
6 November –
Leo Whelan
, painter (born
1892
).
19 November –
Thomas Derrig
,
Fianna Fáil
TD
and Cabinet Minister (born
1897
).
25 November –
Robert Bruce Bowers
, cricketer (born
1897
).
11 December –
Frederic Charles Dreyer
, British
Royal Navy
Admiral
(born
1878
).
27 December –
Lambert McKenna
,
Jesuit
priest and writer (born
1870
).
Undated –
Geoffrey Taylor
, born Jeoffrey Phibbs, poet (born 1900 in England).
References
edit
^
a
b
Hanley, Brian; Miller, Scott (2009).
The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party
. Dublin: Penguin Ireland. p. 14.
^
Department of the Taoiseach (2006). "Speech by the Taoiseach on visit to the Jewish Museum, Dublin".
The Irish Times
. Retrieved
9 March
2008
.