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If you google "representations of the Calkin algebra", you find the 1967 paper of Sakai which answers your question in the negative: It says that the Calkin algebra has a type III factor representation. By the Lemma of Schur, however, every irrducible representation is a type I representation and a direct sum of more than one irreducible is not a factor.

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