1956 in Northern Ireland

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See also:	1956 in the United Kingdom; 1956 in Ireland; Other events of 1956; List of years in Northern Ireland;

Events

12 December - The Irish Republican Army launches its Border Campaign^[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 is beaten off after a brief exchange of fire.
14 December - Border Campaign: An IRA column under Seán Garland detonates bombs outside Lisnaskea Royal Ulster Constabulary station before raking it with gunfire. Further attacks on Derrylin and Roslea RUC barracks are beaten off.
21 December - The Government of Northern Ireland under Basil Brooke uses the Special Powers Act to intern several hundred republican suspects without trial.
30 December - Border Campaign: The IRA Teeling Column under Noel Kavanagh again attacks the Derrylin RUC barracks, killing constable John Scally, the campaign's first fatality.
Ulster Protestant Action, a loyalist Protestant fundamentalist vigilante group, is founded at a special meeting at the Ulster Unionist Party's offices in Glengall Street, Belfast.^[2]
Tayto (Northern Ireland) established by the Hutchinson family to manufacture potato chips at Tandragee, County Armagh.

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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 (died 1996).
13 September - Bobby Campbell, footballer.
19 September - Gerry McElhinney, footballer.
10 October - Amanda Burton, actress.
18 November - Noel Brotherston, footballer (died 1995).

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.
S. J. Michaels, writer.
Don Mullan, writer and film producer
Dermot Seymour, artist