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1969 Bulmer Hobson, leading member of the Irish Volunteers and IRB prior to the Easter Rising, died.
Above: Film director John Ford, who died on 11 August 1973.
Above: The west flank of the Eiger (in sunshine), first climbed by Irishman Charles Barrington in 1858. The infamous North Face is to the left, in the shade.