Born in 1956

A selection from Wikipedia's '1956 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

• 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 politician, revolutionary, and suffragist Constance 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.
• 21 November – Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children was opened in Crumlin.
• 30 November – Petrol rationing was due to be introduced from next 1 January due to the Suez Crisis.

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