No official public holidays are listed for Ireland in 1956.
We could not find published public holiday data for Ireland in 1956. The source is Nager.Date, which covers most countries but not all. Try a neighbouring year or contact us if you know of a public source we should add.
Total holidays
0
in 1956
Working days remaining
261
across all of 1956
Upcoming holidays
0
during 1956
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Ireland recognises ten public holidays under the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997, raised from nine by the addition of Saint Brigid's Day on the first Monday of February in 2023, the first new Irish public holiday since the 1990s. The list includes New Year's Day, Saint Patrick's Day, Easter Monday, the first Mondays of May, June, August and October, Christmas Day and Saint Stephen's Day on 26 December. Good Friday is widely observed by closures and historically by a pub trading ban until the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2018 lifted the restriction, but it has never been a statutory public holiday under the 1997 Act.
Working day in Irish civil procedure and the Interpretation Act 2005 typically means any day except Saturday, Sunday and a public holiday. The standard private-sector week is Monday to Friday with banks operating Monday to Friday. Statutory annual leave under the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 is four working weeks, twenty days for a five-day week. Bank settlement of euro transactions runs on TARGET2 since Ireland joined the eurozone in 1999; domestic Irish bank-to-bank clearing uses the Central Bank of Ireland's calendar, which mirrors the ten statutory public holidays.