1971 Seán Lemass (71), revolutionary, founding member of Fianna Fáil and taoiseach (1959–66), died. 1917 Belfast-born Dr David Walker (80), surgeon, naturalist and photographer on Captain F.L. McClintock’s expedition to the Arctic (1857–9) which discovered the remains of Sir John Franklin and his crew, died in Portland, Oregon. Though barely twenty years old at the ... Read more
